This book offers the first detailed examination of the life and works of biblical commentator Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), analysing his influential eschatological commentaries and their impact on bo
This book explores why English Christians, from the early modern period onwards, believed that their nation had a special mission to restore the Jews to Palestine. It examines English support for Jewi
Prophecy and millennialspeculation are often seen as having played a key role in early Europeanengagements with the new world, from Columbus’s use of the predictions ofJoachim of Fiore, to the puritan
