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Author : Rupert Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039424572
Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844471
A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.
Author : Rupert Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0827406096
Author : Lesley Ann Coote
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153031
The nature of political prophecy in the middle ages analysed, confirming its importance in the discussion of public affairs.
Author : Tim Thornton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1843832593
Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Author : Margery A. Kingsley
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0874137497
"The radical prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, living at the very margins of seventeenth-century English society. Combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style, these men and women brazenly challenged civil and religious authority and flouted social decorum, unnerving their contemporaries and fanning fears of social anarchy. Unfortunately, far too little is known about the fate of their ideas, their writings, and their successors between the restoration of Charles II and the rise of the poetry of sensibility in the mid-eighteenth century. Too often they are assumed merely to have disappeared soon after 1660, snuffed out by a restored monarchy and an Augustan culture antithetical to their aims, and lost to sight until they were rediscovered in the late 1720s by a new generation of poets intrigued by vatic inspiration." "The purpose of this study is to suggest a rather different legacy for the radical prophets of the mid-seventeenth century. It contends, first of all, that prophecy was a significant genre for the writers of the Restoration and early eighteenth century - far more prevalent, more pervasive, and more influential in the decades following 1660 than has traditionally been acknowledged. From Butler's Hudibras, to Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, to the portrayal of Settle in Pope's first version of The Dunciad, prophets rant, rage, and wreak havoc through even the most canonical of Augustan texts, revealing the period's obsession with the figure of the radical prophet."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Matthew Niblett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857737151
Joanna Southcott (1750 – 1814) remains one of the most significant and extraordinary religious figures of her era. In an age of reason and enlightenment, her apocalyptic prophecies attracted tens of thousands of followers, and she captured international attention with her promise to bear a divine child. In this new intellectual biography Matthew Niblett unravels Southcott's writings, her context and her message to demonstrate why the prophetess was such a magnetic figure and to highlight the significance of her role in British religious history. Using a wide range of contemporary sources, this revealing study explains the formation of Southcott's apocalyptic theology, her treatment of the Bible, her relation with the Church, the network of clerical supporters she used and the striking originality of her message. In so doing, this book shines fresh light on religion and the politics of salvation in late Georgian England.
Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786722911
Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.
Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300075448
The methods employed by the Lancastrian usurpers in their attempts to legitimise their dynasty's hold in the English throne included the reburying of the murdered Richard II, the invention of chronicles, prophecies and genealogies, new methods of trial and punishment, the use of spies, and the radical redefinition of treason. Strohm uses both literary and historical analysis to explore this quest for legitimacy, and the importance of symbolic activity to Henry IV and V.
Author : Kimberly Fonzo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487563493
The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middle English authors. It illuminates the creative ways in which William Langland, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer engaged with prophecy to cultivate their own identities and to speak to the problems of their age. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship examines the prophetic reputations of these well-known medieval authors whose fame made them especially subject to nationalist appropriation. Kimberly Fonzo explains that retrospectively co-opting the prophetic voices of canonical authors aids those looking to excuse or endorse key events of national history by implying that they were destined to happen. She challenges the reputations of Langland, Gower, and Chaucer as prophets of the Protestant Reformation, Richard II’s deposition, and secular Humanism, respectively. This intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works successfully makes the case that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in medieval authorial self-representations.
Author : Susan Martha Shwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038915919
Author : Robert Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1715
Category : Prophecy
ISBN : BL:A0022400971
Author : William Hosking Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3464014
Author : Wendy Scase,Rita Copeland,David Lawton
Publisher : New Medieval Literatures
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198187386
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
Author : Joseph Bowling,Katherine Walker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031185199
This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Prophetic Futures. It calls for renewed attention to prophecy and temporality, challenging in the process critical lenses that adhere to strict dualities of medieval/modern, superstitious/rationalized, and other problematic dyads that occlude our understanding of vatic language. The language, texts, and bodies of prophecy challenge commonplaces about a disenchanted modernity and point the way to new critical approaches to texts out of time. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 10, issue 1, March 2019.