Date of Award
2020
Degree Type
Restricted to Claremont Colleges Master's Thesis
Degree Name
History, MA
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Lori Anne Ferrell
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Joshua Goode
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2020 Courtney MacPhee
Keywords
English Interregnum, Fifth Monarchists, itinerancy, prophecy, sectarians
Subject Categories
History
Abstract
As a Fifth Monarchist prophet, Trapnel believed it was her duty to spread the word about the ungodly nature of world powers and to warn others about the impending apocalypse, as prophesied in the Bible. Although Trapnel received visions from God as early as 1646, over the next eight years her prophecies shifted from typical millenarian content with the political climate. By March 1654, Trapnel had become a noticeable threat to the Council of the State and both Trapnel and the authorities she sought to dismantle escalated their attacks against each other. It was not solely Trapnel’s prophecies that made her a threat to the State, however. Rather, her unwavering commitment to converting her fellow citizens into Fifth Monarchists, her dramatic and pointed condemnations of state and religious authorities, and her willingness to travel throughout England to advocate for religious and political change all contributed to the State’s escalated surveillance and action against her.
ISBN
9798672150611
Recommended Citation
MacPhee, Courtney. (2020). "I Will Write of Cornwall, Cornhell in the West": Prophecy, Itinerancy, and Anna Trapnel's Struggle with Cromwellian Authorities. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 691. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/691.
