Author: A. C. SouthernPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Elizabethan Recusant Prose, 1559-1582
Author: A. C. SouthernPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Elizabethan Recusant Prose, 1559-1582
Author: A. C. SouthernElizabethan Recusant Prose, 1559-1582
Author: A. C. SouthernPublisher:
ISBN: 9780841476424
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Elizabethan Recusant Prose, 1559-1582
Author: A. C. SouthernPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690
Author: John D. StainesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall. In following the retellings of her history from her lifetime through the revolutions and political experiments of the seventeenth century, this study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican. Staines provides new readings of Spenser and Milton, as well as of early modern dramatists, to compile a comprehensive study of the writings about this important historical and literary figure. He charts developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, using the emotional representations of the life of this tragic woman and queen to explore early modern experiments in addressing and moving a public audience. By exploring the writing and rewriting of the tragic histories of the Queen of Scots, this book reveals the importance of literature as a force in the redefinition of British political life between 1560 and 1690.
Dismembered Rhetoric
Author: Ceri SullivanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Dismembered Rhetoric describes the rhetoric of devotional publications by the Catholic secret presses between 1580 and 1603. A myth persists of a chasm between the Protestant battle cry of "Bible" and the Catholic approach to the laity through sacrament rather than word. However, Catholic authors did employ formal rhetoric to guide the devotions of the reader. Writers such as Robert Persons, William Allen, Henry Garnet, Edmund Campion, and Robert Southwell recognized that these techniques did not emasculate the chaste prose of their "shining band of martyrs.".
Elizabethan Recusancy in Cheshire
Author: K. R. WarkPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719011542
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Church Papists
Author: Alexandra WalshamPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851157573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A study of clerical reaction to the sizeable number of Catholics who outwardly conformed to Protestantism in late 16c England. An important and satisfying monograph... Many insights emerge from this rich and original study, whichwhets the appetite for more. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW [Diarmaid MacCulloch] `Church Papist' was a nickname, a term of abuse, for those English Catholics who outwardly conformed to the established Protestant Church and yet inwardly remained Roman Catholics. The more dramatic stance of recusancy has drawn historians' attention away from this sizeable, if statistically indefinable, proportion of Church of England congregations, but its existence and significance is here clearly revealed through contemporary records, challenging the sectarian model of post-Reformation Catholicism perpetuated by previous historians. Alexandra Walsham explores the aggressive reaction of counter-Reformation clergy to the compromising conduct of church papists and the threat theyposed to Catholicism's separatist image; alongside this she explains why parish priests simultaneously condoned qualified conformity. This scholarly and original study thus draws into focus contemporary clerical apprehensions andanxieties, as well as the tensions caused by the shifting theological temper ofthe late Elizabethan and early Stuart church.ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter.
Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution
Author: Robert Persons S.J.Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004474501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
This volume presents a critical edition of the immensely influential and popular first version of The Christian Directory, by the notorious Elizabethan Jesuit leader, Robert Persons. It was written during and immediately after the English Mission of 1580-1, which ended with the martyrdom of his companion Edmund Campion. Persons's work, originally entitled The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution, attempts to persuade the reader to be resolved in the service of God. It deals with the motives and obstacles to such resolution. This edition includes a full apparatus of the alterations made to Persons's work by the Edmund Bunny, whose Protestant edition became an Elizabethan bestseller. It will be particularly useful to historians of the Catholic reformation and students of early modern English prose.
Reformation Unbound
Author: Karl GuntherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107074487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A study of radical English Protestant views of reformation, revising understandings of early English Protestantism and the development of Puritanism.