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Peter Marshall

Invisible Worlds

Death, Religion And The Supernatural In England, 1500-1700

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How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences?Following a masterly interpretative introduction, Peter Marshall traces the effects of the Reformers' assaults on established beliefs about the afterlife. He shows how debates about purgatory and the nature of hellfire acted as unwitting agents of modernization. He then turns to popular beliefs about angels, ghosts and fairies, and considers how these were reimagined and reappropriated when cut from their medieval moorings.ContentsPART 1: HEAVEN, HELL AND PURGATORY: HUMANS IN THE SPIRIT WORLD1. Aft… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-281-07523-2
  • EAN: 9780281075232
  • Produktnummer: 23862347
  • Verlag: Canongate Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 597 KB

Über den Autor


Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and co-editor of The English Historical Review. He has published widely on many aspects of the religious culture of early modern Europe, particularly in the British Isles, and his books include Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story (2007), The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction (2009) and Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (2017).

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