Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700: Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality

1. Introduction.- 2. Radicalism in a traditional society: The valuation of radical thought in the English Commonwealth, 1649-1660.- 3. Afterword: Reassessing radicalism in a traditional society: two questions.- 4. Conquering the Conquest: the limits of non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought'.- 5. Formal Utopia/Informal Millennium: the struggle between form and substance as a context for seventeenth-century utopianism.- 6. Against Formality: one aspect of the English Revolution.- 7. Religion and the struggle for freedom in the English Revolution.- 8. Thomas More's Utopia : sources, legacy and interpretation.- 9. Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More's Utopian conclusion.- 10. James Harrington's utopian radicalism and the narration of an alternative world.- 11. Conclusion