Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England 0271050136, 9780271050133, 0271078030, 9780271078038

Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England 0271050136, 9780271050133, 0271078030, 9780271078038

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs

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Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England 9780271078038

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs

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Alchemical Belief 9780271050133, 2011015428

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs

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Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England 9780804779913

Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and

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Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England 9780754665809

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The pastor in print: Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England 9781526152213

The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursue

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Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England 9780300213478

In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteen

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The Culture of Capital : Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England 9781135205683, 9780415929240

Leading literary critics and historians reassess one of the defining features of early modern England -the idea of "

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Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England 0691006946, 9780691006949

This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture

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Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England 9780812203172

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men a

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