Nixon's Prophecies in Their Historical Setting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8934656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Simpson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 201-207 |
| Publication date | 1975-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1975.9716023 |
| OpenAlex | W1995959808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
IN her recent Presidential Address, Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson discussed some instances of how 'propaganda feeds folklore ... and presumably also folklore keeps the fire of propaganda alight'.' One area wherethis double process was at work was that of the 'prophecies' which played a serious role in political crises throughout the Middle Ages, the Tudor and Elizabethan periods, and well on into the seventeenth century, before declining to mere popular entertainment for the credulous. Possibly the latest occasion on which political prophecy appeared an influential factor in public opinion was the time of tension between Hanoverians and Jacobites in the early eighteenth century, the prophet in question being the problematical Cheshire figure, Robert (or William) Nixon
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |