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| Publication Date: 17 Aug 2017 |
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| Publisher: SPCK Publishing |
| Page Count: 256 |
| Author: Peter Marshall |
| ISBN-13: 9780281075225, 9780281075232 |
Invisible Worlds
Death, Religion And The Supernatural In England, 1500-1700
How did popular and elite beliefs about the next world, and about supernatural forces in this world, change and develop as a result of the Reformation?
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‘Invisible Worlds offers convincing proof of the central role played by conceptions of the supernatural and the afterlife in the religious upheavals of the early modern period . . . Peter Marshall’s work is indispensable reading for anyone who desires to understand the intellectual and spiritual shaping of early modern England and of the Western imagination as well.’
‘With characteristic elegance and subtlety, Peter Marshall . . . shows how pastoral imperative sometimes bowed to popular belief, and how, simultaneously, Protestantism sowed the seeds of scepticism about the supernatural. Full of intriguing insights, Invisible Worlds will be warmly welcomed by scholars, students and general readers alike.’
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Following a masterly interpretative introduction, Peter Marshall traces the effects of the Reformers’ assaults on established beliefs about the afterlife. He shows how debates about purgatory and the nature of hellfire acted as unwitting agents of modernization. He then turns to popular beliefs about angels, ghosts and fairies, and considers how these were reimagined and reappropriated when cut from their medieval moorings.