Clarke Garrett
Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. First edition. 0801816181 x/237 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition.
"The French Revolution generated a wave of popular piety and religious excitement in both France and England, where millenarians -- prophets of the millennium -- attempted to interpret the Revolution as the fulfillment of the predictions of Daniel and St. John the Divine. This study discusses the millenarian ideal in the context of the intellectual and religious attitudes of the time."