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Invisible Worlds: Death, Religion and the Supernatural in England, 1500-1700
Peter Marshall
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Description for Invisible Worlds: Death, Religion and the Supernatural in England, 1500-1700
Paperback. How did popular and elite beliefs about the next world, and about supernatural forces in this world, change and develop as a result of the Reformation? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
After a historiographical and interpretative introduction, the book falls into two parts, both referencing the 'Invisible Worlds' of the title, and representing different angles of vision on aspects of early modern belief that today seem particularly strange and disturbing, even to believing Christians. The first five chapters consider the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Reformation's assault on established beliefs about the afterlife, and the experience of souls there. They show how debates about the existence of purgatory, and related matters such as the nature of hell-fire, acted as unwitting agents of modernisation, but also provided scope for ordinary people ... Read more
After a historiographical and interpretative introduction, the book falls into two parts, both referencing the 'Invisible Worlds' of the title, and representing different angles of vision on aspects of early modern belief that today seem particularly strange and disturbing, even to believing Christians. The first five chapters consider the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Reformation's assault on established beliefs about the afterlife, and the experience of souls there. They show how debates about the existence of purgatory, and related matters such as the nature of hell-fire, acted as unwitting agents of modernisation, but also provided scope for ordinary people ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281075225
SKU
V9780281075225
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99-50
About Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall is a Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies in History at the University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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