Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden

by Marsha Keith Schuchard

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts. It also reveals the clandestine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004183124
• ISBN13: 9789004183124
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 824 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.7" x 9.7"