Ariel Hessayon's Panacea Society funded research project on Jacob Boehme's thought and influence
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鈥楢ll in All鈥�: the prophetic thought and legacies of Jacob Boehme and Jane Lead
This is a three year research project funded by about the prophetic thought and legacies of Jacob Boehme (1575鈥�1624) and Jane Lead (1624鈥�1704).
It was launched in September 2010 with a highly successful conference held at Oxford University on 鈥淭eutonic Philosophy鈥�: Jacob Boehme (1575鈥�1624) in context, his life and the reception of his writings鈥�. .
Project elements
Project I: Companion volume on Jacob Boehme
The conference proceedings will be incorporated in a collection of essays.
Ariel Hessayon and Sarah Apetrei (eds.), An Introduction to Jacob Boehme: Four Centuries of Thought and Reception (Routledge, forthcoming)
Project II: Jacob Boehme鈥檚 theology and the reception of his writings in the English-speaking world from c.1600 to c.1850
- volume 1, single authored by Ariel Hessayon, covering period c.1600鈥�1704
- volume 2, single authored by Ariel Hessayon, covering period 1704鈥揷.1850
- Appendix one. Seventeenth-century editions of Jacob Boehme鈥檚 works in English and Welsh: a census of extant copies [Ariel Hessayon & Leigh Penman]
- Appendix two. Readers and Owners of Seventeenth-century editions of Jacob Boehme鈥檚 works in English and Welsh [Ariel Hessayon & Leigh Penman]
Project III: Visionary experience and mysticism in later Stuart Britain
A single volume monograph by Sarah Apetrei.
Project IV:
A one-day conference to be held in September 2012 at Shoreditch, 51黑料网.
Project V: Extracts from the diary of John Sparrow (1615鈥�1670), sometime of Dynes Hall, Essex, made by the antiquarian William Holman (1669鈥�1730)
Ariel Hessayon and Leigh Penman (eds.), with an introduction by Ariel Hessay.
Project researchers
Dr Ariel Hessayon FRHistS (Principal investigator)
Dr Leigh Penman (Researcher)
Dr Jennifer Smyth (Researcher)