Contents

B.Taithe & T. Thornton
    The language of history: past and future in prophecy 1-16

Part One; Language of Élites, Symbols of Power

L. Coote
    A language of power: prophecy and public affairs in later medieval England. 17-30

A.N. MacLaren
    Prophecy and providentialism in the reign of Elizabeth I.     31-50

T. Thornton
    Reshaping the local future: the development and uses of Provincial political prophecies,             1300-1900.    51-70

Part Two: Prophecies in the Age of the Beast: Reforming Prophecy

K. Gibson
    Apocalyptic and millenarian prophecy in early Stuart Europe: Philip Ziegler, Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil and the Fifth Monarchy. 71-84

G. Games
    'To justify the ways of God to men': the prophetic role of ministers in New England.  85-100

S.J. Barnett
    The prophetic Thought of Sir Isaac Newton, its origin and context.    101-18.

Part Three: Prophecy and Systems of Belief

N. Hitchin
    The evidence of things seen: georgian churchmen and Biblical prophecy.    119-42

Part Four:  The Ends of Prophecy

J.A.G. Roberts
    'Golden bricks and golden houses await you': prophecy and millenarianism in the Taiping Rebellion.    143-60.

R. Hayward
    From the millenial future to the unconscious past: the transformation of prohecy in early twentieth-century Britain.    161-80.

P. Davies
    Providence, saviour figures and would-be Gods: prophecy and the French extreme right.  181-201

B.Taithe & T. Thornton
    Bibliographical essay.    202-6.