Signs and wonders in Britain's age of revolution : a sourcebook

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of illustrations and abbreⅴiation = viii
• Preface = x
• Chronology = xiv
• 1 Warning-pieces = 1
• Introduction = 1
• The supernatural in the English Revolution = 5
• Witchcraft and the English Civil War = 7
• Documents in the collection = 11
• Notes on the illustrations, transcriptions, and editorial conventions = 14
• Document = 15
• ⅰ "A Briefe Discourse of Prodigies," Preface to The Warnings of Germany (1638) = 15
• 2 Prelude to war : `Fore-runners of destruction' = 35
• Introduction = 35
• Documents = 39
• ⅰ Motus Mediterraneus ; or, A True Relation of a Fearefull and Prodigious Earthquake (1626) = 39
• ⅱ Looke Up and See Wonders (1628) = 45
• ⅲ "Dreadfull and Prodigious Aspects," excerpts from Warnings of Germany (1638) = 53
• ⅳ Irelands Amazement, or the Heavens Armado (1642) = 69
• ⅴ A Strange Wonder or, The Cities Amazement (1642) = 72
• 3 Civil war : `These troublesome and distracted times' = 79
• Introduction = 79
• Documents = 82
• ⅰ John vicars' Prodigies＆Apparitions, or Englands Warning Pieces (1643) = 82
• ⅱ A Great Wonder in Heaven (1643) = 103
• ⅲ The New Yeares Wonder (1643) = 107
• ⅳ Signes and Wonders from Heaven (1645) = 111
• ⅴ The Most Strange and Wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton (1645) = 116
• ⅵ Sad Newes from the Eastern Parts (1646) = 122
• 4 Cavaliers and Roundheads : 'The divells agents still' = 134
• Introduction = 134
• Documents = 138
• ⅰ The Devils Last Legacy (1642) = 138
• ⅱ The Kingdomes Monster Uncloaked from Heaven (1643) = 143
• ⅲ A Most Certain, Strange, and true Discovery of a Witch (1643) = 146
• ⅳ A Dogs Elegy, or Rupert's Tears (1644) = 150
• ⅴ The Devills White Boyes : Or, A mixture of malicious Malignants (1644) = 157
• ⅵ The English Devil : or, Cromwel and his Monstrous Witch (1660) = 165
• 5 Christian astrology : 'Amongst the celestiall hieroglyphicks' = 181
• Introduction = 181
• Table of Astrological Symbols = 190
• Documents = 191
• ⅰ "Epistle to the Student in Astrology," from Lilly's Christian Astrology (1647) = 191
• ⅱ William Lilly's 1648 Almanac : Merlini Anglici Ephemeris 1648 = 194
• ⅲ "To the Reader," from H. Johnsen's Anti-Merlinus : Or, A Confutation of Mr. William Lillies Predictions for this Year 1648 (1648) = 216
• ⅳ The Divels Delusions (1649) = 223
• 6 Sectarians and recusants : 'Recant... those dangerous errors' = 234
• Introduction = 234
• Documents = 238
• ⅰ A Relation of a Strange Apparition in an Ale-house (1641) = 238
• ⅱ A Strange and Lamentable Accident... at Mears-Ashby (1642) = 241
• ⅲ A Declaration of a Strange and Wonderfull Monster (1645) = 244
• ⅳ Strange Newes from Scotland (1647) = 249
• ⅴ The Ranters Monster (1652) = 252
• ⅵ Strange＆Terrible Newes from Cambridge (1659) = 257
• ⅶ A Lying Wonder Discoⅴered (1659) = 261
• 7 The remoⅴal of the King : 'Innocent blood calls for vengeance' = 270
• Introduction = 270
• Documents = 274
• ⅰ Vox Infantis (1649) = 274
• ⅱ A Miracle of Miracles (1649) = 278
• ⅲ Strange Newes from the North (1650) = 281
• ⅳ A True Relation of the Strange Apparitions Seen in the Air (1650) = 286
• ⅴ More Warning Yet, Being A True Relation of a Strange and most Dreadful Apparition (1654) = 292
• ⅵ The Five Strange Wonders (1659) = 294
• List of pamphlet locations = 303
• Index = 306
• Index of scriptural references = 313