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AN AGE OF WONDERS
PRODIGIES, POLITICS AND PROVIDENCE IN ENGLAND 1657-1727 |
| By: |
William Burns, Kim Latham |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719061407 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719061400 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 June, 2002 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
As an exploration into the reasons for the decline of the religious significance of such events as monstrous births and rains of blood, this study charts the establishment of early modern scientific thinking in Restoration England as a result of political and religious struggles. |
| Synopsis: |
Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky - people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings. This work explores the process by which these events became religiously and politically insignificant in the Restoration period, and discusses the establishment of early modern science, the shift from "enthusiastic" to reasonable religion, and the fierce political combat between the Whigs and the Tories. As a study of Restoration politics this study fully brings to bear the insights of the new social history of science, and is based on close readings of a variety of primary sources, both in print and in manuscript form. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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