ISBN: 9780199259854

This anthology makes available in modern spelling substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen… Altro …

This anthology makes available in modern spelling substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents silenced voices and redefines the culture of Early Modern England including such figures as Shakespeare, Donne, Spenser, Milton, and Jonson. - ;Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the usual stereotypes and misinformation, it provides a fresh look at Catholic writing long suppressed, marginalized, and ignored. The anthology gives back voices to those silenced by prejudice, exile, persecution, or martyrdom. while attention to actual texts challenges conventional beliefs about the period. The anthology is divided into eight sections entitled Controversies, Lives and Deaths, Poetry, Instructions and Devotions, Drama, Histories, Fiction, and Documents, and includes sixteen black and white illustrations from a variety of Early Modern sources. Amongst the selections are texts which illuminate the role of women in recusant community and in the Church; the rich traditions of prayer and mysticism; the theology and politics of martyrdom; the emergence of the Catholic Baroque in. literature and art; and the polemical battles fought within the Church and against its enemies. Early Modern Catholicism also provides a context that redefines the established canons of Early Modern England, including such figures as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Ben. Jonson. - ;Robert Miola's excellent anthology offers a wide range of writing... - Paul Dean;A highly useful set of primary historical sources... a fresh look at the history of the period... this book belongs in every college and university library where students of history and students of religion conduct primary research. - William V. Hudon, The Review of English Studies;The insightful introduction, informative, non-tendentious footnotes, and an extensive bibliography demonstrate the editor's mastery of secondary literary and historical sources. - Thomas M McCoog;This is a rich and timely resource. - Alison Shell, Durham Univeristy;a collection that opens a window on the period, allowing you to breathe its air and hear its voices in a way that is quite revelatory, and it undermines much that has long been taken for granted about the Reformation. - The Tablet History History eBook, Oxford University Press, UK<

2007, ISBN: 9780199259854

An Anthology of Primary Sources, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2007

2007, ISBN: 9780199259854

An Anthology of Primary Sources, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press]

2007, ISBN: 9780199259854

Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press]