Overview: Covers a wide-range of topics on Lead’s work and influences..Features some of the most important scholars in the field.Reveals a number of previously unidentified connections while correcting many mis.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 a
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