Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Catholics
ISBN : IOWA:31858030003648
Biographical Studies, 1534-1829
Anonim
Biographical Studies 1534 1829
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Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain
Alexandra Walsham
Author : Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317169246
Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain by Alexandra Walsham Pdf
The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and for its plantation overseas. It emphasises the reciprocal interaction between Catholicism and anti-Catholicism throughout the period and casts fresh light on the nature of interconfessional relations in a pluralistic society. It argues that persecution and suffering paradoxically both constrained and facilitated the resurgence of the Church of Rome. They presented challenges and fostered internal frictions, but they also catalysed the process of religious identity formation and imbued English, Welsh and Scottish Catholicism with peculiar dynamism. Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing field. Collectively these make a major contribution to our understanding of minority Catholicism and the Counter Reformation in the era after the Council of Trent.
Naming Thy Name
Elaine Scarry
Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374713867
Naming Thy Name by Elaine Scarry Pdf
A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare’s beautiful young man SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS ARE indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language. But what is it that continues to elude us? While it is in part the spellbinding incantations, the hide-and-seek of sound and meaning, it is also the mystery of the noble youth to whom Shakespeare makes a promise—the promise that the youth will survive in the breath and speech and minds of all those who read these sonnets. “How can such promises be fulfilled if no name is actually given?” Elaine Scarry asks. This book is the answer. Naming Thy Name lays bare William Shakespeare’s devotion to a beloved whom he not only names but names repeatedly in the microtexture of the sonnets, in their architecture, and in their deep fabric, immortalizing a love affair. By naming his name, Scarry enables us to hear clearly, for the very first time, a lover’s call and the beloved’s response. Here, over the course of many poems, are two poets in conversation, in love, speaking and listening, writing and writing back. In a true work of alchemy, Scarry, one of America’s most innovative and passionate thinkers, brilliantly synthesizes textual analysis, literary criticism, and historiography in pursuit of the haunting call and recall of Shakespeare’s verse and that of his (now at last named) beloved friend.
Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland
Steven W. May,Alan Bryson
Author : Steven W. May,Alan Bryson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198739210
Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland by Steven W. May,Alan Bryson Pdf
In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout the period. Thus most (but not all) libelling, in verse or prose, was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive survey of the genre identifies all sixteenth-century verse libel texts, printed and transcribed. It makes fifty-two of the least familiar of these poems accessible for further study by providing critical texts with glosses and explanatory notes. In reconstructing the contexts of these poems, we identify a number of the libellers, their targets, the circumstances of attack, and the workings of the scribal networks that disseminated many of them over wide areas, often for decades. The book's concentration on poems restricted to manuscript circulation throws substantial new light on the nature of Renaissance scribal culture. As poetic technicians, its practitioners were among the age's most experimental and creative. They produced some of the most popular, widely read works of their age and beyond, while their output established the foundation upon which the seventeenth-century tradition of verse libel developed organically.
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume I
James E. Kelly,John McCafferty
Author : James E. Kelly,John McCafferty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192581983
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume I by James E. Kelly,John McCafferty Pdf
The first volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism explores the period 1530-1640, from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the outbreak of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland. It analyses the efforts to create Catholic communities after the officially implemented change in religion, as well as the start of initiatives that would set the course of British and Irish Catholicism, including the beginning of the missionary enterprise and the formation of a network of exile religious institutions such as colleges and convents. This work explores every aspect of life for Catholics in both islands as they came to grips with the constant changes in religious policies that characterised this 110-year period. Accordingly, there are chapters on music, on literature in the vernaculars, on violence and martyrdom, and on the specifics of the female experience. Anxiety and the challenges of living in religiously mixed societies gave rise to new forms of creativity in religious life which made the Catholic experience much more than either plain continuity or endless endurance. Antipopery, or the extent to which Catholics became a symbolic antitype for Protestants, became in many respects a kind of philosophy about which political life in England, Scotland, and colonised Ireland began to revolve. At the same time the legal frameworks across both Britain and Ireland which sought to restrict, fine, or exclude Catholics from public life are given close attention throughout, as they were the daily exigencies which shaped identity just as much as devotions, liturgy, and directives emanating from the Catholic Reformation then ongoing in continental Europe.
The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, 3 Volume Set
Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards
Author : Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1335 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405194495
The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, 3 Volume Set by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards Pdf
Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature produced from the early 16th to the mid 17th centuries. Comprises over 400 entries ranging from 1000 to 5000 words written by leading international scholars Arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Provides coverage of canonical authors and their works, as well as a variety of previously under-considered areas, including women writers, broadside ballads, commonplace books, and other popular literary forms Biographical material on authors is presented in the context of cutting-edge critical discussion of literary works. Represents the most comprehensive resource available for those working in English Renaissance literary studies Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
Elizabethan Recusancy in Cheshire
K. R. Wark
Author : K. R. Wark
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Catholics
ISBN : 071901154X
Elizabethan Recusancy in Cheshire by K. R. Wark Pdf
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism
James E. Kelly,Sweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism James E Kelly,John McCafferty
Author : James E. Kelly,Sweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism James E Kelly,John McCafferty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198843801
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism by James E. Kelly,Sweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism James E Kelly,John McCafferty Pdf
The first volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism explores the period 1530-1640, from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the outbreak of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland. It analyses the efforts to create Catholic communities after the officially implemented change in religion, as well as the start of initiatives that would set the course of British and Irish Catholicism, including the beginning of the missionary enterprise and the formation of a network of exile religious institutions such as colleges and convents. This work explores every aspect of life for Catholics in both islands as they came to grips with the constant changes in religious policies that characterised this 110-year period. Accordingly, there are chapters on music, on literature in the vernaculars, on violence and martyrdom, and on the specifics of the female experience. Anxiety and the challenges of living in religiously mixed societies gave rise to new forms of creativity in religious life which made the Catholic experience much more than either plain continuity or endless endurance. Antipopery, or the extent to which Catholics became a symbolic antitype for Protestants, became in many respects a kind of philosophy about which political life in England, Scotland, and colonised Ireland began to revolve. At the same time the legal frameworks across both Britain and Ireland which sought to restrict, fine, or exclude Catholics from public life are given close attention throughout, as they were the daily exigencies which shaped identity just as much as devotions, liturgy, and directives emanating from the Catholic Reformation then ongoing in continental Europe.
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music
Michael Fleming,John Bryan
Author : Michael Fleming,John Bryan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317147169
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music by Michael Fleming,John Bryan Pdf
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.
Generations
Alexandra Walsham
Author : Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192595874
Generations by Alexandra Walsham Pdf
This book examines England's plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries not merely transformed the generations but were also forged by them. It provides compelling new insights into how people experienced and navigated the profound challenges that the Reformations posed in everyday life. Alexandra Walsham investigates how age and ancestry were implicated in the theological and cultural upheavals of the era and how these in turn reconfigured the nexus between memory, history, and time. Generations explores the manifold ways in which the Reformations shaped the horizontal relationships that men, women, and children formed with their siblings, kin, and peers, as well as the vertical ones that tied them to their dead ancestors and their future heirs. It highlights the vital part that families bound by blood and by faith played in the making of current events and in recording the past for posterity. Drawing on previously untapped archival evidence, in tandem with a rich array of printed texts, visual images, and material objects, this study offers poignant glimpses of individual lives and casts fascinating light on how families were both torn apart and brought closer together by the English Reformations.
“Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor...” (1 Celano 22): Essays in Honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004432499
“Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor...” (1 Celano 22): Essays in Honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday by Anonim Pdf
This collection of essays honors Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on his 70th birthday. The contributors address issues within academic areas in which he has taught and published: the Writings of Francis; Franciscan history, hagiography and spirituality; medieval women; and Franciscan theology and philosophy.
Cromwell Hath the Honour, but . . .
P. R. Hill,J. M. Watkinson,David Breeze
Author : P. R. Hill,J. M. Watkinson,David Breeze
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781599044
Cromwell Hath the Honour, but . . . by P. R. Hill,J. M. Watkinson,David Breeze Pdf
Cromwell hath the honor, but Lamberts discreet, humble, ingenious, sweet and civil deportment gains him more hugs and ingenious respect.Much has been written about the first Civil War and the triumphs of Oliver Cromwell. Less is known, however, of the skirmishes of the second Civil War, especially in the north, or of the role and military prowess of the excellent young Parliamentarian commander Major-General John Lambert. Not only was Lambert a brilliant general who demonstrated exceptional tactical skills but he was also a brave and humane leader who was well liked by his men and merciful to his captured enemies, refusing to undertake the harsh actions indulged in by Cromwell.This carefully researched and highly readable new account reexamines contemporary sources to shed new light on Lamberts decisive northern campaign of 16481649. Remarkably detailed and supported by maps and photographs, this is an important source for the general reader and military historian alike.
English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625
Dr Micheline White
Author : Dr Micheline White
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478621
English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625 by Dr Micheline White Pdf
Contributing to the growing interest in early modern women and religion, this essay collection advances scholarship by introducing readers to recently recovered or little-studied texts and by offering new paradigms for the analysis of women's religious literary activities. Contributors underscore the fact that women had complex, multi-dimensional relationships to the religio-political order, acting as activists for specific causes but also departing from confessional norms in creative ways and engaging in intra-as well as extra-confessional conflict. The volume thus includes essays that reflect on the complex dynamics of religious culture itself and that illuminate the importance of women's engagement with Catholicism throughout the period. The collection also highlights the vitality of neglected intertextual genres such as prayers, meditations, and translations, and it focuses attention on diverse forms of textual production such as literary writing, patronage, epistolary exchanges, public reading, and epitaphs. Collectively, English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical, literary, and methodological issues preoccupying scholars of women and religious writing.
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature
Anne Cotterill,Assistant Professor of English Anne Cotterill
Author : Anne Cotterill,Assistant Professor of English Anne Cotterill
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199261178
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature by Anne Cotterill,Assistant Professor of English Anne Cotterill Pdf
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices thatcaptured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitiveyet circumspect as they made their voices heard.
The Minority Press & The English Crown 1558-1625
Leona Rostenberg
Author : Leona Rostenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004612914
The Minority Press & The English Crown 1558-1625 by Leona Rostenberg Pdf
First edition. A richly documented book, portraying the clandestine activity of the under-ground Catholic and Puritan presses in England and on the Continent during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. With full details of government censorship.
