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The Devil in Disguise - Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,370
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The Devil in Disguise - Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (Hardcover, New): Mark Knights

The Devil in Disguise - Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)

Mark Knights

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2011
First published: May 2011
Authors: Mark Knights
Dimensions: 240 x 163 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957795-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
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LSN: 0-19-957795-1
Barcode: 9780199577958

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