Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture 64 welche meist den konkreten Be­

welche meist den konkreten Be­ durfnissen jeder speziellen Arbeit angepaBt waren

the cultural background of the book respectively the story are to be outlined

Jahrhundert zurückverfolgt

aber auch zum Eingehen von strategischen oder spekulativen Positionen verwendet

Semantik und Pragmatik erläutert

Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture 64 welche meist den konkreten Be­Thanks to the work of legions of scholars, the millenarian expectations within large segments of the population in Cromwellian England have been carefully examined. The widespread belief that England, with its messianic leader 1 Cromwell, heralded the millennium is well known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural conceptions of the role of millenarian and messianic ideas in the "long" eighteenth century. Especially during the stable