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ever existed per se, being rather a myth created by conservatives to endorse traditional values by comparison with an unimaginably radical other. Other works by J. C. Davis include
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was described as "the best analysis we have of
Cromwell's religion and its politics" by the Journal of Modern History. Davis' 1986 work
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Professor Colin Davis was born in
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was particularly noted for questioning whether the radical, nonconformists known as the
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Review of Utopia and the Ideal
Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700
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E P Thompson's review of Fear, Myth and
History: The Ranters and the Historians
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https://www.uea.ac.uk/hum/Old+people+pages+(hidden)/hispeopleold/Emeriti/Davis
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co-authored with J. D. Alsop for the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography.
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Utopia and the Ideal
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was written in honour of Davis at the time of his retirement as professor.
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Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and
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