Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy
This book concerns one of early modern England's most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624-1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead's thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, androgyny and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy - particularly in the German-speaking world and North America.This book suggests that Lead was far more radical than has been supposed. It argues that her religious journey had staging posts, namely an initial Calvinist obsession with sin and predestination wedded to a conventional Protestant understandin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-39614-3
- EAN: 9781137396143
- Produktnummer: 20154277
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'539 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Ariel Hessayon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of 'Gold tried in the fire': The prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution (2007) and the co-editor of several collections of essays. He has also written extensively on a variety of early modern topics: antiscripturism, book burning, communism, environmentalism, esotericism, extra-canonical texts, heresy, crypto-Jews, Judaizing, millenarianism, mysticism, prophecy, and religious radicalism.
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