Prophetic writings of Lady Eleanor Davies:
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1. Verfasser: Douglas, Eleanor, Lady (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1995
Schriftenreihe:Women writers in English 1350-1850
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Abbreviations of Titles; Prophetic Writings; A Warning to the Dragon and all his Angels; Woe to the House; Given to the Elector Prince Charles of the Rhyne; Bathe Daughter of BabyLondon; Spirituall Antheme: Elea. Tuichet; The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal to the High Court of Parliament; To the most honorable the High Court of Parliament and Samsons Legacie; The Star to the Wise; From the Lady Eleanor, Her Blessing; A Prayer or Petition for Peace; As Not Unknowne. This Petition or Prophesie; Great Brittains Visitation
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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ISBN:019802407X
9780195087178
9780198024071

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