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Heaven Upon Earth


Heaven Upon Earth

Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Band 194

von: Jeffrey K. Jue

149,79 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 28.06.2006
ISBN/EAN: 9781402042935
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 292

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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 on careful archival research, many of these studies discarded the former conception of this period as “revolutionary”, instead 5 arguing that the Reformation was in fact a gradual and unpopular process. In 1 Margo Todd (ed.) Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England (London and New York, 1995), p. 1. 2 S. R. Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution (London, 1876).
1 - JOSEPH MEDE IN CONTEXT.- Biography.- Crypto-Papists, Anti-Calvinists and the Antichrist.- Joseph Mede and the Cambridge Platonists.- Protestant Irenicism and the Millennium: Mede and the 65 Hartlib Circle.- 2 - THE ROOTS OF MEDE'S APOCALYPTIC THOUGHT.- The Origins of the Clavis Apocalyptica: A Millenarian Conversion.- Millenarians, The Church Fathers and Jewish Rabbis.- 3 - THE LEGACY OF JOSEPH MEDE.- An English Millenarian Legacy.- Colonial North America: The Puritan Errand Revised.- The Continental Millenarian Tradition.- Conclusion: Revising British Millenarianism.
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 transatlantic and continental perspective

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