Overview
- Offers the latest research from a number of key scholars in the field that both synthesises existing research and provides important new insights in the field
- Contributions come from an excellent interdisciplinary mix of scholars at various stages of their careers
- An accessible and thorough overview of the cultural, religious and political impact of prophecy in the transatlantic world
Part of the book series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (CTAW)
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Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus’s use of the predictions of Joachim of Fiore, to the puritan ‘Errand into the Wilderness’. Yet examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who held to them. This book explores the way in which prophecy and eschatological ideas influenced poets, politicians, theologians, and ordinary people in the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Chapters cover topics ranging from messianic claimants to the Portuguese crown to popular prophetic almanacs in eighteenth-century New England; from eschatological ideas in the poetry of George Herbert and Anne Bradstreet, to the prophetic speculation surrounding the Evangelical revivals. It highlights the ways in which prophecy and eschatology played a key role in the early modern Atlantic world.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Andrew Crome is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He researches English religious history, apocalypticism, and religion and contemporary popular culture. He is author of The Restoration of the Jews: Early Modern Hermeneutics, Eschatology, and National Identity in the Works of Thomas Brightman (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550−1800
Editors: Andrew Crome
Series Title: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52055-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70514-6Published: 06 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52055-5Published: 22 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-5838
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 302
Topics: Eschatology, US History, History of Religion, Christianity, History of Early Modern Europe