Any number of misconceptions about millenarians and messianism in the early modern period will be laid to rest by a reading of this volume. It is too often thought that millenarianism was largely an English phenomenon. One of the reasons for bringing these studies together is to show, as Martin Mulsow puts it, that we can understand this European-wide movement as a "millenarian international" in analogy with the later "socialist international." Another misconception is that millenarianism and messianism were a world apart from mainstream developments in intellectual history; but, as Mulsow...
Any number of misconceptions about millenarians and messianism in the early modern period will be laid to rest by a reading of this volume. It is too ...