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The Devil in Disguise - Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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The Devil in Disguise - Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British
revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious,
political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral
culture that they brought about.
It does so through the fascinating story of one family and their
locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains
a murder mystery, bigamy, a scandal novel, and a tyrannized wife,
all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions,
rampant religious prejudice, and the last conviction of a witch in
England.
Spencer Cowper was accused of murdering a Quaker, and his brother
William had two illegitimate children by his second 'wife'. Their
scandalous lives became the source of public gossip, much to the
horror of their mother, Sarah, who poured out her heart in a diary
that also chronicles her feeling of being enslaved to her husband.
Her two sons remained in the limelight. Both were instrumental in
the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell, a firebrand cleric who
preached a sermon about the illegitimacy of resistance and
religious toleration. His parliamentary trial in 1710 provoked
serious riots in London. William Cowper also intervened in 1712 to
secure the life of Jane Wenham, whose trial provoked a wide-ranging
debate about witchcraft beliefs.
The Cowpers and their town are a microcosm of a changing world.
Their story suggests that an early 'Enlightenment', far from being
simply a movement of ideas sparked by 'great thinkers', was shaped
and advanced by local and personal struggles.
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