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.
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.
Prophecy, Politics and the Early Modern England
Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England
Author: Victoria Flood
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.
Secretaries of God
Author: Diane Watt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium of trances and eucharistic piety, to speak for God. [...] Through prophecy they were often able to intervene in the religious and political discourse of their times: the role of God's secretary gave them the opportunity to act and speak autonomously and publicly"--Back cover.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium of trances and eucharistic piety, to speak for God. [...] Through prophecy they were often able to intervene in the religious and political discourse of their times: the role of God's secretary gave them the opportunity to act and speak autonomously and publicly"--Back cover.
Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Author: Carme Font
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317231384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it. While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the result of archival research, this monograph complements our particular knowledge of women’s prophecy in the seventeenth century with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the first place, and what are the differences and similarities between texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and believers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317231384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it. While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the result of archival research, this monograph complements our particular knowledge of women’s prophecy in the seventeenth century with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the first place, and what are the differences and similarities between texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and believers.
Politics, Prophecy, and Propaganda in Early Modern England
Author: Jennifer E. Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.)
Author: Lionel Laborie
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443630
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
Laborie and Hessayon bring rare prophetic and millenarian texts to an international audience by presenting sources from all over Europe (broadly defined), and across the early modern period in English for the first time.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443630
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
Laborie and Hessayon bring rare prophetic and millenarian texts to an international audience by presenting sources from all over Europe (broadly defined), and across the early modern period in English for the first time.
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin M. Sharpe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521824347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521824347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.
Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin Sharpe
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441195017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441195017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England.
The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England
Author: Robert Zaller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Discourse of Legitimacy is a wide-ranging, synoptic study of England's conflicted political cultures in the period between the Protestant Reformation and the civil war.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Discourse of Legitimacy is a wide-ranging, synoptic study of England's conflicted political cultures in the period between the Protestant Reformation and the civil war.