Research Catalog

Title

An age of wonders : prodigies, politics, and providence in England, 1657-1727 / William E. Burns.

Author

Burns, William E., 1959-

Publication

Manchester, U.K. ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

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Details

Description

ix, 228 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• 1600-1799
• Curiosities and wonders > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Curiosities and wonders > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Providence and government of God > History of doctrines
• Curiosities and wonders
• Politics and government
• Vorzeichen Volksglaube
• Politik
• Aufklärung
• Wonderen
• Curiosa
• Rampen
• Voorzienigheid
• Bijgeloof
• Geschichte 1660-1658
• Geschichte 1690-1750
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1660-1714
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1714-1727
• Great Britain
• England

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Enlargement of author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of California at Davis.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-218) and index.

Contents

Organizing the prodigious: the Poole project and the Mirabilis Annus tracts -- 'A kind of philosophy-office': Restoration science and the regulation of prodigies -- 'A noise of fictitious Prodigies': comets and other prodigies in later Restoration politics -- 'A warning to all to repent': prodigies and moral reform in the 1690s -- 'The poor comfort of prodigies and old women's fables': political prodigies in the early eighteenth century -- Conclusion: from reverence to ridicule.

ISBN

• 0719061407
• 9780719061400
• 9780719081279
• 0719081270

LCCN

2002067077

OCLC

• ocm49530102
• 49530102
• SCSB-14058125

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library