Anticipating the Apocalypse: An Elizabethan Prophecy

Within its fantastic visions and imaginative language, Abel Jeffes's unauthorized "A Strange and Wonderful Prophecy" contained predictions the English authorities found potentially subversive. Forster examines the confiscation of the work, allegedly authored in 1569 by two German astr...

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Published in:The Historian (Kingston) 2001-04, Vol.63 (3), p.600-617
Main Author: Forster, Jennifer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Almanacs
Astrology
Bestselling books
Business structures
Confiscation
Countries
Elizabethan period
Emperors
Jeffes, Abel
Judgment Day
Prophecy
Queens
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Summary:Within its fantastic visions and imaginative language, Abel Jeffes's unauthorized "A Strange and Wonderful Prophecy" contained predictions the English authorities found potentially subversive. Forster examines the confiscation of the work, allegedly authored in 1569 by two German astrologers who claimed that the year 1596 would bring the end of human history.
ISSN:0018-2370
1540-6563