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Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution

A Sourcebook
Buch | Softcover
314 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-49206-6 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution is an original collection of primary sources from the era encompassing the political, religious, and social tumult of the English Civil War. It is essential reading for all students of early modern Britain.
Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution is an original collection of primary sources from the era encompassing the political, religious, and social tumult of the English Civil War.

With a focus on Britain in the seventeenth century and covering topics such as astrology, scurrilous pamphlet wars, witch-hunts and trials, and the execution of King Charles I, Signs and Wonders investigates published "strange and true" accounts that existed alongside more traditionally studied historical events.

Including fully edited and annotated texts of carefully selected popular pamphlets, the sourcebook is accompanied by guided introductory essays for each of the thematically divided chapters. With more than two dozen woodcut images, Signs and Wonders enables students to pursue in-depth primary source analysis of this rich period of history, when the supernatural was woven into the lives of those participating in or viewing the tumultuous political and religious events of the mid-17th century.

In this collection of popular pamphlets, battles in the sky, witches, monstrous births, and apparitions stand side-by-side with the major political and religious events that make up the standard histories of the era, allowing a fuller perspective on these early modern narratives and their interpretation (and exploitation) by the heated presses of 17th-century Britain. Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution is essential reading for all students of early modern Britain.

Timothy G. Fehler is Professor of History at Furman University. His previous books include Poverty and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden (1999), and Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile (2014). Abigail J. Hartman (BA, Furman University; MLitt, University of St. Andrews) is pursuing doctoral work in Medieval History. ).

Chapter 1. Warning-Pieces; Chapter 2. Prelude to War: ‘Fore-Runners of Destruction’; Chapter 3. Civil War: ‘These Troublesome and Distracted Times'; Chapter 4. Cavaliers and Roundheads: ‘The Divells Agents Still’; Chapter 5. Christian Astrology: ‘Amongst the Celestiall Hieroglyphicks'; Chapter 6. Sectarians and Recusants: ‘Recant…Those Dangerous Errors’; Chapter 7. The Removal of the King: ‘Innocent Blood calls for vengeance’

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 27 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-138-49206-X / 113849206X
ISBN-13 978-1-138-49206-6 / 9781138492066
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