| Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyd 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Force, J. E. (Editor), Popkin, R. H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792368487 ISBN-13: 9780792368489 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the long' eighteenth century when, so the official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious radicalism as enthusiasm'. In this collection of essays, we endeavour to revise this official' story and to trace the influence of millenarian ideas in the science, politics, and everyday life of England and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 236.9 |
| Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.3" W x 9.64" (1.08 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Thanks to the work of legions of scholars, the millenarian expectations within large segments of the population in Cromwellian England have been carefully examined. The widespread belief that England, with its messianic leader 1 Cromwell, heralded the millennium is well known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural conceptions of the role of millenarian and messianic ideas in the "long" eighteenth century. Especially during the stable Hanoverian era - until the American and French Revolutions - the common- place millennial expectations of the English Civil War appeared to recede. By the end of the eighteenth century, with the Napoleonic wars, millenarian views and interpretations underwent a minor renaissance but with nothing like the fervor, it is commonly thought, of the Puritan era when so many believed that the end was near. By the end of the eighteenth century, so the "official" story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England such as David Hume had done too well their work of tarring such religious radicalism with the brush of "enthusiasm. " Happily, this "official" interpretation of the events of the early modern period - in which scholars have too often taken their cue from writers such as Hume and simply ignored millenarian contexts and expectations in the Age of Reason - has undergone a marked shift in the past twenty years. |