Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture write by David Loewenstein. This book was released on 2006-12-21. Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume should be of interest to all literary, religious and political historians working on early modern English culture.
Treacherous Faith
Treacherous Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treacherous Faith write by David Loewenstein. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Treacherous Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Treacherous Faith is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering
Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670
Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670 write by Genelle Gertz. This book was released on 2012-06-14. Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow and Quaker women, Genelle Gertz examines the complex dynamics of women's writing, preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship and uncovers unexpected connections between the writings of women on trial for their religious beliefs.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion write by Andrew Hiscock. This book was released on 2017-06-22. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.
The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period
The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period write by Karl A. E. Enenkel. This book was released on 2013-08-01. The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Erasmus was not only one of the most widely read authors of the early modern period, but one of the most controversial. For some readers he represented the perfect humanist scholar; for others, he was an arrogant hypercritic, a Lutheran heretic and polemicist, a virtuoso writer and rhetorician, an inventor of a new, authentic Latin style, etc. In the present volume, a number of aspects of Erasmus’s manifold reception are discussed, especially lesser-known ones, such as his reception in Neo-Latin poetry. The volume does not focus only on so-called Erasmians, but offers a broader spectrum of reception and demonstrates that Erasmus’s name also was used in order to authorize completely un-Erasmian ideals, such as atheism, radical reformation, Lutheranism, religious intolerance, Jesuit education, Marian devotion, etc. Contributors include: Philip Ford, Dirk Sacré, Paul J. Smith, Lucia Felici, Gregory D. Dodds, Hilmar M. Pabel, Reinier Leushuis, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Johannes Trapman, and Karl Enenkel.
