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The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment
Mark Knights
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Description for The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment
Paperback. Illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about, looking at the fascinating story of one family and their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the fascinating story of one family and their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery, bigamy, a scandal novel, and a tyrannized wife, all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions, rampant religious prejudice, and the last conviction of a witch in England. Spencer Cowper was accused of murdering a Quaker, and ... Read more
The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the fascinating story of one family and their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery, bigamy, a scandal novel, and a tyrannized wife, all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions, rampant religious prejudice, and the last conviction of a witch in England. Spencer Cowper was accused of murdering a Quaker, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198749073
SKU
V9780198749073
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About Mark Knights
Mark Knights is Professor of History at Warwick University. He has written two books about later Stuart political culture, including Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture which is also published by Oxford University Press, and has also written elsewhere about early modern ideas, print, and discourse. He recently organized a conference held in Parliament to ... Read more
Reviews for The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment
a work which is ambitious in its remit, entertaining in its form, and successful in its argument: a further notable achievement by a historian with a sure grasp of his craft
Ronald Hutton, Times Literary Supplement
a thought-provoking book that spurs readers to take an interest in the late Stuart period is much needed and very welcome.
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Ronald Hutton, Times Literary Supplement
a thought-provoking book that spurs readers to take an interest in the late Stuart period is much needed and very welcome.
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