Author: Ezerel Tonge
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Northern star: the British monarchy: or, The Northern the fourth universal monarchy. A collection of prophecies
Author: Ezerel Tonge
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama
Author: Adrian Streete
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110824856X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues that this rhetoric is not simply an expression of religious bigotry, nor is it only deployed at moments of political crisis. Rather, it is an adaptable and flexible language with national and international implications. It offers a measure of cohesion and order in a volatile century. By rethinking the relationship between theatre, theology and polemic, Streete shows how playwrights exploited these connections for a diverse range of political ends. Chapters focus on playwrights like Marston, Middleton, Massinger, Shirley, Dryden and Lee, and on a range of topics including imperialism, reason of state, commerce, prostitution, resistance, prophecy, church reform and liberty. Drawing on important recent work in religious and political history, this is a major re-interpretation of how and why religious ideas are debated in the early modern theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110824856X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues that this rhetoric is not simply an expression of religious bigotry, nor is it only deployed at moments of political crisis. Rather, it is an adaptable and flexible language with national and international implications. It offers a measure of cohesion and order in a volatile century. By rethinking the relationship between theatre, theology and polemic, Streete shows how playwrights exploited these connections for a diverse range of political ends. Chapters focus on playwrights like Marston, Middleton, Massinger, Shirley, Dryden and Lee, and on a range of topics including imperialism, reason of state, commerce, prostitution, resistance, prophecy, church reform and liberty. Drawing on important recent work in religious and political history, this is a major re-interpretation of how and why religious ideas are debated in the early modern theatre.
A Catalogue of a Unique ... Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets. Collected and Arranged by J. R. Smith
Author: John Russell Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9781843832591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9781843832591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Catalogue of twelve thousand tracts, pamphlets and unbound books, in all branches of literature
Author: Thomas Rodd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A Catalogue Raisonné of Works on the Occult Sciences
Author: Frederick Leigh Gardner
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Rosicrucian books. (half-title: Bibliotheca Rosicruciana) 1903
Author: Frederick Leigh Gardner
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Author: Sara Schechner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture
Author: J.E. Force
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940172282X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious radicalism as `enthusiasm' has been less well examined. This volume endeavors to revise this `official' story and to trace the influence of millenarian ideas in the science, politics, and everyday life of England and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940172282X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious radicalism as `enthusiasm' has been less well examined. This volume endeavors to revise this `official' story and to trace the influence of millenarian ideas in the science, politics, and everyday life of England and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Established Church of England
Author:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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