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35. See Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture, vol. 4: Continental
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36. See Hayyim Hillel Ben-Sasson, “The Reformation in Contemporary Jewish
Eyes,” Proceedings of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities 4 (Jerusalem:
The Israeli Academy, 1970), 239–326. An alternative view can be found in
Jerome Friedman, “The Reformation in Alien Eyes: Jewish Perceptions of
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37. Robin Bruce Barnes, Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism In the Wake of the Lutheran
Reformation (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
38. See Cohn, Pursuit of the Millennium, chs. 11–13; George H. Williams, The Radical
Reformation, 3rd ed. (Vol. 15, Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies; Kirksville, Missouri:
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39. See Robert H. Bainton, Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus,
1511–1553 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1960); Jerome Friedman, Michael Servetus: A
Case Study in Total Heresy (Geneva: Droz, 1978).
40. See Froom, Prophetic Faith, vol. 2, 542–549; Katherine R. Firth, The Apocalyptic
Tradition in Reformation Britain, 1530–1645 (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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Protestantism to 1660 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975), 172–177; Sarah Hutton, “The
Appropriation of Joseph Mede: Millenarianism in the 1640s,” in Millenarianism
and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture, vol. 3: The Millenarian Turn—
Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life In the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. J. E. Force and R. H. Popkin (Dordrecht:
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41. See Froom, Prophetic Faith, ch. 24.
42. See Howard Hotson, Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of
Calvinist Millenarianism (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000).
43. See Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1971); Patrick Curry, Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern
England (Cambridge: Polity, 1989).
44. See, e.g., Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the
English Revolution (London: Penguin, 1975); Firth, The Apocalyptic Tradition; Bernard
S. Capp, The Fifth Monarchy Men: A Study in Seventeenth-Century English
Millenarianism (London: Faber and Faber, 1972); Leo Damrosch, The Sorrows of
the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996).
45. See William M. Lamont, Godly Rule: Politics and Religion, 1603–1660 (London:
Macmillan, 1969); Arthur H. Williamson, “Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse
and the Seventeenth-Century Debate about the Creation of the British
State,” in The Millenarian Turn, ch. 2.
46. See Hill, World Turned Upside Down, ch. 6; Thomas, Religion and the Decline of
Magic, passim.
47. See David S. Katz, Philosemitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England (Ox-