THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE Deception Delusion and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment

KNIGHTS Mark

ISBN 10: 0199577951 / ISBN 13: 9780199577958

Published by Oxford University Press, 2011. 9780199577958, 2011

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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (small mark at tail of spine - otherwise VG in protective cover). Pp. xvii + 279, illus with b&w figures (no inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE Deception Delusion and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011. 9780199577958
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199577951
• ISBN 13: 9780199577958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern History

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Synopsis

Shows how the early Enlightenment was shaped by local and personal struggles on the ground rather than just the great thinkers of the time

About the Author

Mark Knights is Professor of History at Warwick University. He has written two books about later Stuart political culture, including Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture which is also published by Oxford University Press, and has also written elsewhere about early modern ideas, print, and discourse. He recently organized a conference held in Parliament to mark the tercentenary of the trial of Dr Henry Sacheverell, whose trial features in the book.