Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and Culture, 1600–1900 ed. John Morrow and Jonathan Scott 300 pp., £17.95 / $34.90, 978-1845401351 (pbk.) £40 / $80, 978-1845401429 (cloth), July 2008 Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk order your copy

During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English history to re-evaluate the character and significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution. Davis’s analyses of groups like the Levellers and individuals like Gerrard Winstanley and Oliver Cromwell has reoriented the inquiry around the contemporary moral themes of liberty, authority and formality. It is with these concepts that this volume engages.