Heaven Upon Earth Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism /

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...

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Main Author: Jue, Jeffrey K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 194
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4293-0
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.