Andrew (Hrsg.) Crome

Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550-1800

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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 the Po… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-52054-8
EAN: 9781137520548
Produktnummer: 19734437
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 302 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.5 cm 548 g
Auflage: 2016
Gewicht: 548

Über den Autor

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).