The Family of Love in English Society, 1550 1630
This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship, the 'Family of Love', in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many literate contemporaries, and an association with extremism, subversion and hypocrisy has endured. The author tracks the English Familists into their houses, fields and places of work. Although members of the Family were few in number and highly secretive, identification has proved possible in contexts ranging from the court of Elizabeth I to rural villages in Cambridgeshire. The author also examines…
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Weitere Autoren: Fletcher, Anthony (Hrsg.) / Guy, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-02000-8
- EAN: 9780521020008
- Produktnummer: 21129241
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 506 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 506
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