Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 Vols.)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-34266-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 324/23, 866 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 2018 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

In this 3-volume set of primary sources, Lionel Laborie and Ariel Hessayon bring together a wide range of vital sources for the study of prophecy in the early modern world. This meticulously edited collection includes rare material and fascinating manuscripts published in English for the first time. Volumes are organised geographically, each with its own introduction by a specialist. Together with their respective contributors, they show how prophecies circulated widely throughout this period at all levels of society. Indeed, they often emerged in times of crisis and were delivered as warnings as well as signals of hope. Moreover, they were constantly adapted and translated to suit ever changing contexts – including those for which they had not been originally intended.

Contributors include: Viktoria Franke, Monika Frohnapfel, William Gibson, Mayte Green, Marios Hatzopoulos, Jacqueline Hermann, Ariel Hessayon, Warren Johnston, Lionel Laborie, Adelisa Malena, Andreas Pecar, Martin Pjecha, Michael Riordan, Luís Filipe Silvério Lima, Damien Tricoire, Leslie Tuttle, and Kristine Wirts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laborie, Lionel

Hessayon, Ariel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: Continental Europe

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Reformations, Prophecy and Eschatology

Andreas Pecar and Damien Tricoire

1 Hussite Eschatological Texts (1412–1421): Background and Introduction

Martin Pjecha

2 Jacques Massard: Prophecy and the Harmony of Knowledge

Kristine Wirts and Leslie Tuttle

3 Friedrich Breckling’s Paulus Redivivus (1688) and Catalogus Haereticorum (c. 1697–1703)

Viktoria Franke

4 Huguenot Prophecies in Eighteenth-Century France

Lionel Laborie

Bibliography

Index

VOLUME TWO: The Mediterranean World

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Mediterranean Apocalypticism: An Introduction

Mayte Green-Mercado

5 Sebastianism: A Portuguese Prophecy

Jacqueline Hermann

6 “Hopes of Portugal” by Antonio Vieira: 17th-Century Portuguese America, a Luso-Brazilian Fifth Empire and Prophetical Views of History

Luís Filipe Silvério Lima

7 Prophecies in Early Modern Spain: Deceit, Scandals, and the Spanish Inquisition

Monika Frohnapfel-Leis

8 The So-Called Italian Quietism: Siena in the 1680s

Adelisa Malena

9 Saints in Revolt: The Anti-Ottoman “Vision of kyr Daniel”

Marios Hatzopoulos

Bibliography

Index

VOLUME THREE: The British Isles

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Millenarianism and Prophecy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

William Gibson

10 Jane Lead and the Philadelphians

Ariel Hessayon

11 The French Prophets and the Scottish Mystics: Prophecies and Letters

Michael B. Riordan

12 Thanksgiving and the Apocalypse: Two Eighteenth-Century Sermons

Warren Johnston

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lionel Laborie, Ph.D. (2011), is Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at Leiden University. His research focuses on early modern dissenters and transnational networks. He is the author of Enlightening Enthusiasm: Prophecy and Religious Experience in Early Eighteenth-Century England (MUP 2015).

Ariel Hessayon, Ph.D. (1996), is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively on a variety of early modern topics. His next book is on the reception of Jacob Boehme in the English-speaking world.