Professor Bertrand Taithe
Prophecy: the power of inspired language in history, 1300-2000, edited with Tim Thornton, Themes in History, Sutton Publishing, 1997, ISBN 07509-1331-2.
Contents
B.Taithe & T. Thornton
The language of history: past and future in prophecy 1-16
Part One; Language of Élites, Symbols of Power
L. Coote
A language of power: prophecy and public affairs in later medieval England. 17-30
A.N. MacLaren
Prophecy and providentialism in the reign of Elizabeth I. 31-50
T. Thornton
Reshaping the local future: the development and uses of Provincial political prophecies, 1300-1900. 51-70
Part Two: Prophecies in the Age of the Beast: Reforming Prophecy
K. Gibson
Apocalyptic and millenarian prophecy in early Stuart Europe: Philip Ziegler, Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil and the Fifth Monarchy. 71-84
G. Games
'To justify the ways of God to men': the prophetic role of ministers in New England. 85-100
S.J. Barnett
The prophetic Thought of Sir Isaac Newton, its origin and context. 101-18.
Part Three: Prophecy and Systems of Belief
N. Hitchin
The evidence of things seen: georgian churchmen and Biblical prophecy. 119-42
Part Four: The Ends of Prophecy
J.A.G. Roberts
'Golden bricks and golden houses await you': prophecy and millenarianism in the Taiping Rebellion. 143-60.
R. Hayward
From the millenial future to the unconscious past: the transformation of prohecy in early twentieth-century Britain. 161-80.
P. Davies
Providence, saviour figures and would-be Gods: prophecy and the French extreme right. 181-201
B.Taithe & T. Thornton
Bibliographical essay. 202-6.
