The Siblys of London : a family on the esoteric fringes of Georgian England /
Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in Western esotericism.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to existing scholarly accounts of brothers Ebenezer and Manoah, while locating the entire Sibly family in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early ninetee. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 340 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190687335 0190687339 9780190687342 0190687347 9780190687359 0190687355 |