1975/09/01 by Jacqueline Simpson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #American Constitutional Law and Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/0015587x.1975.9716023
openalex publication_date 1975/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
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.