Providence in Early Modern England.
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An extensive study of the sixteenth and seventeenth century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. "Explores a range of dramatic events and...
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An extensive study of the sixteenth and seventeenth century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. "Explores a range of dramatic events and puzzling phenomena in which contemporaries detected the divine finger at work: tragic accidents and sudden deaths, strange sights and mysterious portents, monstrous births and popular prophets, terrible disasters and raging epidemics. [Walsham shows how providence helped forge a powerful myth of Protestant nationhood and how, simultaneously, it exacerbated the political and ecclesiastical tensions which culminated in the outbreak of the civil wars in 1642." Pp.xviii/387, 46 black & white plates. Paperback. VG.
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ISBN: 0198208871
ISBN-13: 9780198208877
Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0198208871
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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