Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England

Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781843832591

Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.