caa a22 4500 388018380 CHVBK 20180307124917.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0018246X98000017 doi S0018246X98000017 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0018246X98000017 Walsham Alexandra Univeristy of Exeter ‘Frantick Hacket': Prophecy, Sorcery, Insanity, and the Elizabethan Puritan Movement [Elektronische Daten] [Alexandra Walsham] This essay reconsiders the career of the most famous of Elizabethan false prophets, William Hacket, the illiterate pseudo-messiah who, together with two gentleman disciples, plotted a civil and ecclesiastical coup, and was executed for treason in July 1591. It explores the significance of automous lay acitvity on the fringes of the mainstream puritan movement, demonstrating links between the dissident trio and key clerical figures who later prudently disowned them. Closer inspection of Hacker's exploits sheds fresh light on the relationship between experimental Calvinist piety and the religious and magical culture of the unlettered rural laity - a relationship still weidely presented as bitterly adversarial. Relocated in the context of contemporary attitudes to prophecy and insanity, the episode illuminates the eclecticism of early modern belief and the manner in which medical and theological explantions for bizarre behaviour comfortably coesisted and mingled. Variously labelled a witcg, visionary, and raving lunatic, Hacket's case reverals the extent to which such roles, diagnoses, and stereotupes are socially, culturally, and politically shaped and conditioned. In exploiting the inciden to discredit Presbyterian activism within the church of England, leading conformist polemicists anticipated the main thrust of the campaign against raligious ‘enthusiasm' mounted by Anglican elits in the Interregnum, Restoration, and early Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press The Historical Journal Cambridge University Press 41/1(1998-01), 27-66 0018-246X 41:1<27 1998 41 HIS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X98000017 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X98000017 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Walsham Alexandra Univeristy of Exeter NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Historical Journal Cambridge University Press 41/1(1998-01), 27-66 0018-246X 41:1<27 1998 41 HIS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge