Anne Lake Prescott
apocalyptic interpretation in early modern England
Balthazar Gerbier
Barbara K. Lewalski
Betty S. Travitsky
biblical exegesis
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Elaine Hobby
Ellen Rosand
English Civil War religion
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Georgianna Ziegler
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Harvard University's Houghton Library
Harvard University’s Houghton Library
Hells Destruction
Hilda L. Smith
Margaret J.M. Ezell
Mary Beth Rose
millenarian thought
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prophetic literature
Retha M. Warnicke
seventeenth-century prophecy
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Sir Balthazar Gerbier
Stephen Orgel
Suzanne W. Hull
Teresa Ferolic
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Wing D1968
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Worcester College
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754662280
- Weight: 1292g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies' life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voice" told her "There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her controversial career as a writer of prophetic tracts. Between 1641 and 1652 she would produce some 66 of them, using the Bible to gauge the cosmic significance of events, great and small, taking place in her nation and in her personal life. They focus on a complex of personal and political events that Lady Eleanor thought indicated the fast approach of the "last days" foretold by the biblical prophets Daniel and John of Patmos. A complement to Teresa Feroli's facsimile edition of Eleanor Davies' pre-1640 texts (Ashgate, 2000), this pair of volumes reproduces 60 texts from the corpus of 66 printed between 1641 and 1652.
Teresa Feroli, Associate Professor of English, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA
