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 /
The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' eighteenth century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2001.
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| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface. Introduction. Essay 1: The Appropriation of Joseph Mede. Millenarianism in the 1640s
- Essay 2: Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse and the Seventeenth-Century Debate about the Creation of the British State
- Essay 3: A Whig Apocalypse: Millenarianism, Astrology, and Politics in the Restoration Crisis, 1678-1683
- Essay 4: Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife
- Essay 5: Robert Boyle, the Conversion of the Jews, and Millennial Expectations
- Essay 6: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton's Prophetic History
- Essay 7: `The Mystery of This Restitution of All Things': Isaac Newton on the Return of the Jews
- Essay 8: The Occult Bible: Hebraic Millenarianism in Eighteenth-Century England
- Essay 9: David and Goliath: Jewish Conversion and Philosemitism in Late-Eighteenth-Century Millenarian Thought
- Essay 10: Caveat Emptor: Pre- and Postmillennialism in the Late Reformation
- Essay 11: The Eschatology of Everyday Things, England, 1600-1800
- Index.