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Sceptics, Millenarians and Jews
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 17
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One 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.
Jonathan I. Israel is Professor of Dutch History and Institutions at University College London. He has written extensively on Dutch, Jewish, and Spanish history and in 1986 was joint winner of the Wolfson prize for History for his
European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism (1550- 1750) (1985).
David S. Katz is Professor in Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Publications: Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655 (1982) and Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England (Brill, 1988)
David S. Katz is Professor in Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Publications: Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655 (1982) and Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England (Brill, 1988)
Students and specialists of church history, Jewish studies, historians of religion and early modern England.