Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Thanks to the work of legions of scholars, the millenarian expectations within large segments of the population in Cromwellian England have been carefully examined. The widespread belief that England, with its messianic leader 1 Cromwell, heralded the millennium is well known. Less well examined, pe...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Appropriation of Joseph Mede: Millenarianism in the 1640s
- 2. Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse and the Seventeenth-Century Debate about the Creation of the British State
- 3 A Whig Apocalypse: Astrology, Millenarianism, and Politics in England during the Restoration Crisis, 1678–1683
- 4. Robert Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife
- 5. Robert Boyle, the Conversion of the Jews, and Millennial Expectations
- 6. The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton’s Prophetic History
- 7 “The Mystery of This Restitution of All Things”: Isaac Newton on the Return of the Jews
- 8. The Occult Bible: Hebraic Millenarianism in Eighteenth-Century England
- 9. David and Goliath: Jewish Conversion and Philo-Semitism in Late-Eighteenth-Century English Millenarian Thought
- 10. Caveat Emptor: Pre- and Postmillennialism in the Late Reformation Period
- 11. The Eschatology of Everyday Things, England, 1600–1800