J. C. Davis is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of East Anglia, UK. His previous publications include
Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981),
Fear, Myth and History (1986),
Oliver Cromwell (2001) and numerous essays on the history of utopian and radical thought. He is currently co-editing
Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought (2018) with John Morrow.