Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies

by Andrew Davies, Eleanor Douglas, Eleanor Davies, et al.

Book Overview

Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087178
• ISBN13: 9780195087178
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"