Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds - Sabbatai Sevi and the Lost Tribes of Israel

In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a histo

List of contents

Introduction; The lost tribes in the Americas: Judeo-Christian reciprocity across the Atlantic world (1648-1666); New monarchs or grand impostors? James Nayler and Sabbatai Sevi (1656-1666); Who sacked Mecca? The life of a rumour (1665-1666); A Jewish Messiah among Christians: the evolution of European perceptions of Sabbatai Sevi (1665-1666); Conclusion; Appendix; Select bibliography; Index.

About the author

Brandon Marriott received his doctoral degree in early modern European history from the University of Oxford in 2012. His publications and presentations centre on cross-religious interactions in the early modern Abrahamic world. He has recently worked as a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University and held a short-term fellowship at the Warburg Institute to undertake research on his next project: a cross-religious history of Gog and Magog.

Summary

In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a histo

Product details

• Authors: Brandon Marriott
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032928715
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92871-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Universal Reform: Studies in Intellectual History, 1550-1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Historiography, Archaeology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards