Sceptics, Millenarians, and JewsOne of the main consequences of recent work in early modern intellectual and religious history has been a discrediting of the notion of a sudden and dramatic transition to the spiritual world of the Enlightenment. Scholars are increasingly examining the underlying spiritual trends and tendencies which confirm the variety and complexity of the slow movement from Renaissance to Enlightenment, and the profound impact of many of the manifestations of intellectual and religious tension during the early modern period. The essays in this volume are a contribution to this process of reappraisal, focusing specifically on the phenomena of scepticism and millenarianism, especially as part of the more pronounced role of the Jews and their culture. |
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Contents
Chinese and Christian History in | 15 |
Descartes An Enthusiast malgré lui? Michael Heyd | 35 |
Descartes and Others | 59 |
Dutch Sephardi Jewry Millenarian Politics and the Struggle | 76 |
Why was Baruch de Spinoza Excommunicated? Asa Kasher and Shlomo | 98 |
Queen Christina of Sweden and Messianic Thought Susanna Åkerman | 142 |
A PhiloSemitic Millenarian on the Reconciliation of Jews | 161 |
Une relation italienne du XVIIème | 185 |
The Hutchinsonians and Hebraic Fundamentalism in Eighteenth | 237 |
Priestley the Jews and the Millennium J van den Berg | 256 |
Social Theory and Gothic Horror in the Writings of SimonNicolas | 275 |
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