书目名称 | Heaven Upon Earth |
副标题 | Joseph Mede (1586-16 |
编辑 | Jeffrey K. Jue |
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概述 | Contributes to the ongoing revision of early modern British History.Seeks to revise the history of 17th century millenarianism.Attempts to examine early modern British history from both a transatlanti |
丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées |
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描述 | 1.i THE HISTORY OF BRITISHAPOCALYPTICTHOUGHT The study of early modern Britain between the Reformation of the 1530s and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of the 1640s has undergone a series of historiographical revisions. The dramatic events during that century were marked by a religious struggle that produced a Protestant nation, divided internally, yet clearly opposed to Rome. Likewise the political environment instilled a sense of responsible awareness regarding the administration of the realm and the defense 1 of constitutional liberty. Whig Historians from the nineteenth century described 2 these changes as a “Puritan Revolution.” Essentially this was England’s inevitable 3 march towards enlightenment as a result t of religious and political maturation. Subsequent Marxist historians attributed these radical changes to socio-economic 4 factors. Britain was witnessing the decline of the medieval feudal system and the rise of a new capitalist class. Both of these early views claimed that brewing social, political and economic unrest culminated in extreme radical action. More recently, beginning in the 1980s, new studies appeared that began to challenge these old assumptions. Relying |
出版日期 | Book 2006 |
关键词 | Apocalypse; Apocalypticism; Eschatology; Hartlib circle; Isaac Newton; Jerusalem; Joseph Mede; Millenariani |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4293-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7098-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-4293-5Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 |
issn_series | 0066-6610 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006 |