TY - BOOK ID - 2986916 TI - Heaven Upon Earth : Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism PY - 2006 VL - 194. SN - 1402042922 9781402042928 9048170982 9786610612680 1280612681 1402042930 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Millennialism KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - Millénarisme KW - Littérature apocalyptique KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire KW - Histoire et critique KW - Mede, Joseph, KW - Great Britain KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Church history KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Millennialism. KW - Mede, Joseph. KW - Philosophy KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Religion KW - Millénarisme KW - Littérature apocalyptique KW - EPUB-LIV-FT LIVPHILO SPRINGER-B KW - Amillennialism KW - Chiliasm KW - Millenarianism KW - Millennianism KW - Postmillennialism KW - Premillennialism KW - Mead, Joseph, KW - Meade, KW - Meade, Joseph, KW - Medus, Josephus, KW - Religion. KW - History. KW - Philosophy. KW - Religious Studies. KW - Religious Studies, general. KW - Philosophy, general. KW - History, general. KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - God KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - Dispensationalism KW - Fundamentalism KW - Millennium (Eschatology) KW - Mede, Joseph KW - England KW - History of doctrines KW - 17th century KW - Philosophy (General). KW - Millennialism - England KW - Millennialism - New England KW - Mede, Joseph, - 1586-1638 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2986916 AB - 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 produced a Protestant nation, divided internally, yet clearly opposed to Rome. Likewise the political environment instilled a sense of responsible awareness regarding the administration of the realm and the defense 1 of constitutional liberty. Whig Historians from the nineteenth century described 2 these changes as a “Puritan Revolution.” Essentially this was England’s inevitable 3 march towards enlightenment as a result t of religious and political maturation. Subsequent Marxist historians attributed these radical changes to socio-economic 4 factors. Britain was witnessing the decline of the medieval feudal system and the rise of a new capitalist class. Both of these early views claimed that brewing social, political and economic unrest culminated in extreme radical action. More recently, beginning in the 1980s, new studies appeared that began to challenge these old assumptions. Relying on careful archival research, many of these studies discarded the former conception of this period as “revolutionary”, instead 5 arguing that the Reformation was in fact a gradual and unpopular process. In 1 Margo Todd (ed.) Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England (London and New York, 1995), p. 1. 2 S. R. Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution (London, 1876). ER -