Mysticism in Early Modern England

Mysticism in Early Modern England
Author: Liam Peter Temple
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783273933

Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.

Mystical Bedlam

Mystical Bedlam
Author: Michael MacDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1981-08-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521231701

Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634. Napier's clients were drawn from every social rank and his therapeutic techniques included all the types of psychological healing practised at the time. His vivid descriptions of his clients' afflictions and complaints illuminate the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. This book goes beyond simply analysing mental disorder in a seventeenth-century astrological and medical practice. It reveals contemporary attitudes towards family life, describes the appeal of witchcraft and demonology to ordinary villagers, and explains the social and intellectual basis for the eclectic blend of scientific, magical, and religious therapies practised before the English Revolution. Not only is it a contribution to the history of medicine but also a survey of some of the darkest regions of the mental world of the English people of the seventeenth century.

Bitter Magic: Inspired by the True Story of a Confessed Witch

Bitter Magic: Inspired by the True Story of a Confessed Witch
Author: Nancy Hayes Kilgore
Publisher: Milford House Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781620068427

A chance encounter leads teenaged Margaret into the circle of Isobel Gowdie, a "cunning woman" who practices magic and travels in the fairy world. But Scotland is aflame with wars over religion and "correct" belief-English against Scots, Catholics against Protestants-and in the Scottish Highlands, the witch craze is at its height. When Margaret starts to meet with Isobel to learn magic, Isobel is accused of witchcraft, and Margaret becomes a suspect, too. Can Margaret's tutor, Katharine, a Christian mystic, affect the outcome? Bitter Magic is inspired by the true story of the witchcraft trial of Isobel Gowdie in 1662.

The Crisis of Mysticism

The Crisis of Mysticism
Author: Bernard McGinn
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780824504670

The Crisis of Mysticism is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical spirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnation of some mystics and the decline of mysticism in Catholicism for almost two centuries.

Mysticism in English Literature

Mysticism in English Literature
Author: Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107401712

Beginning with a precise definition of the term mysticism, Spurgeon explores how mystical thought influenced many of England's finest writers.

Mysticism in English Literature

Mysticism in English Literature
Author: Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN:

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