Abstract
Francis Lee’s The History of Montanism of 1709 played a role in the reception of the French Prophets in early eighteenth-century England, in the medicalization of enthusiasm between Burton and Kant, and in the use of history for the demonization of heresies. Its author may seem an unlikely candidate for such roles, since he was one of the founding members of the Philadelphians, a charismatic and enthusiastic movement of the late seventeenth century. We learn from the history of histories of heresy that authors’ intentions and authors’ results are not always straightforward.
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Erwin L. Lueker, ed., Lutheran Cyclopedia (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1975 ), p. 577.
Christine Trevett, Montanisrn: Gender, Authority, and the New Prophecy ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 ) p. 2.
Gordon Rupp, Religion in England: 1688–1791 ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986 ), p. 216.
See Hillel Schwartz, The French Prophets: The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century England ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980 ), pp. 37–45.
Desiree Hirst, Hidden Riches: Traditional Symbolism from the Renaissance to Blake ( New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964 ), p. 103.
J. G. A. Pocock, “Within the margins: the definitions of orthodoxy” in R. D. Lund, ed., The Margins of Orthodoxy: Heterodox Writing and Cultural Response, 1660–1750 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 ), pp. 33–53. See also Justin Champion, “Introduction” to John Toland, Nazarenus (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999), p. 49: criticism’ was the product of a battle over rival processes of cultural authentification. ‘Criticism’ was not a discourse used solely by the heterodox against the status quo”
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See David Lawton, Blasphemy ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993 ), p. 105;
Alain Cabantous, Histoire du blasphème en occident, Fn xvie milice xixe siècle ( Paris: Albin Michel, 1998 ).
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Searl-Chapin, S. (2002). Francis Lee and The French Prophets The History of Montanism [1709]. In: Laursen, J.C. (eds) Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107496_3
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