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Prophetic writings of Lady Eleanor Davies /
Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Women writers in English 1350-1850.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell he. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 374 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780198024071 019802407X 9780195078756 0195078756 9786610760459 6610760454 |