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Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550 1800
Andrew Crome (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Crome, Andrew. Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus's use of the predictions of Joachim of Fiore, to the puritan `Errand into the Wilderness'. Yet examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who held to them. This book explores the way in which prophecy and eschatological ideas influenced poets, politicians, theologians, and ordinary people in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Chapters cover topics ranging from messianic claimants to ... Read more
Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus's use of the predictions of Joachim of Fiore, to the puritan `Errand into the Wilderness'. Yet examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who held to them. This book explores the way in which prophecy and eschatological ideas influenced poets, politicians, theologians, and ordinary people in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Chapters cover topics ranging from messianic claimants to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349705146
SKU
V9781349705146
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About Andrew Crome (Ed.)
Andrew Crome is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He researches English religious history, apocalypticism, and religion and contemporary popular culture. He is author of The Restoration of the Jews: Early Modern Hermeneutics, Eschatology, and National Identity in the Works of Thomas Brightman (2014).
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