Reading revelations: Prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 122-162

  Sharpe, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511483974.005     Document Type: Chapter

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