Devotional Experience And Erotic Knowledge In The Literary Culture Of The English Reformation

Author : Rhema Hokama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886552

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Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation by Rhema Hokama Pdf

This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology and informal devotional practice, the Reformation introduced the idea that an individual's experience of devotion did not only entail feeling, but also thought. For early modern English people, bodily experience offered a means of corroborating and verifying devotional truth, making the invisible visible and knowable. This volume maintains that these religious developments gave early modern thinkers and poets a new epistemological framework for imagining and interpreting devotional intention and access. These Reformed models for devotion not only shaped how people experienced their encounters with God; the changing religious landscape of post-Reformation England also held profound implications for how English poets described sexual longing and access to earthly beloveds in the literary production of the period. In placing the works of English poets in conversation with devotional writers such as William Perkins, Samuel Hieron, Joseph Hall, and William Gouge, this book demonstrates how the English Calvinist tradition attributed epistemological potential to a wide range of ordinary experience, including sexual experience.

Author : Rhema Hokama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886569

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Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation by Rhema Hokama Pdf

This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology and informal devotional practice, the Reformation introduced the idea that an individual's experience of devotion did not only entail feeling, but also thought. For early modern English people, bodily experience offered a means of corroborating and verifying devotional truth, making the invisible visible and knowable. This volume maintains that these religious developments gave early modern thinkers and poets a new epistemological framework for imagining and interpreting devotional intention and access. These Reformed models for devotion not only shaped how people experienced their encounters with God; the changing religious landscape of post-Reformation England also held profound implications for how English poets described sexual longing and access to earthly beloveds in the literary production of the period. In placing the works of English poets in conversation with devotional writers such as William Perkins, Samuel Hieron, Joseph Hall, and William Gouge, this book demonstrates how the English Calvinist tradition attributed epistemological potential to a wide range of ordinary experience, including sexual experience.

Author : Lara Farina
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0312295006

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Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing by Lara Farina Pdf

Erotic Discourse discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.

Author : Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108829991

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Memory and the English Reformation by Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace Pdf

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Author : Jeff Bach
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271027449

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Voices of the Turtledoves by Jeff Bach Pdf

Winner, 2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Winner, 2005 Outstanding Publication, Communal Studies Association Co-published with the Pennsylvania German Society/Vandenhoeck && Ruprecht The Ephrata Cloister was a community of radical Pietists founded by Georg Conrad Beissel (1691&–1768), a charismatic mystic who had been a journeyman baker in Europe. In 1720 he and a few companions sought a new life in William Penn&’s land of religious freedom, eventually settling on the banks of the Cocalico Creek in what is now Lancaster County. They called their community &“Ephrata,&” after the Hebrew name for the area around Bethlehem. Voices of the Turtledoves is a fascinating look at the sacred world that flourished at Ephrata. In Voices of the Turtledoves, Jeff Bach is the first to draw extensively on Ephrata&’s manuscript resources and on recent archaeological investigations to present an overarching look at the community. He concludes that the key to understanding all the various aspects of life at Ephrata&—its architecture, manuscript art, and social organization&—is the religious thought of Beissel and his co-leaders.

Author : Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning,Erik Tonning,Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004416543

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The Transformations of Tragedy by Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning,Erik Tonning,Jolyon Mitchell Pdf

The Transformations of Tragedy explores different Christian influences, from the Early Modern to Modern periods, upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy.

Author : Beatrice Groves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107533856

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The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature by Beatrice Groves Pdf

This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a new perspective to works by canonical authors such as Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton. The volume also offers a historically compelling and wide-ranging account of major shifts in cultural attitudes towards Judaism by situating texts in their wider cultural and theological context. Groves examines the continuities and differences between medieval and early modern theatre, London as an imagined community and the way that narratives about Jerusalem and Judaism informed notions of English identity in the wake of the Reformation. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume will interest researchers and upper-level students of early modern literature, religious studies and theatre.

Author : Dr Freya Sierhuis,Professor Brian Cummings
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472413666

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Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture by Dr Freya Sierhuis,Professor Brian Cummings Pdf

Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, analysed and studied—the autobiography, the essay, the soliloquy—genres which rewrite the formation of subjectivity. At the same time, the frame of reference moves outwards, from the world of interior states to encounter the passions on a public stage, thus reconnecting literary study with the history of political thought. In between the abstract theory of political ideas and the inward selves of literary history, lies a field of intersections waiting to be explored. The passions, like human nature itself, are infinitely variable, and provoke both literary experimentation and philosophical imagination. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture thus makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the emotions in order to suggest both new models of the self and new models for interdisciplinary history.

Author : Cecilia af Forselles,Tuija Laine
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789522222411

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The Emergence of Finnish Book and Reading Culture in the 1700s by Cecilia af Forselles,Tuija Laine Pdf

Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Book Culture from Below, that took place in Helsinki in 2010. This book provides, for the first time in English, an overview of an important epoch in Finnish book and reading history. Besides depicting book culture at the periphery of Europe, it contributes to our understanding of the power of the urbanized European literary world of the 1700s. The new reading culture that emerged in Finland during the 1700s affected readers and all levels of society in many ways. Along with other trends, the arrival of translated fiction and Enlightenment literature from Europe opened and irrevocably altered the Finns' world view. The change was especially pronounced in cities. Scholars, merchants, craftspersons, as well as military officers stationed at Helsinki's offshore Sveaborg fortress, acquired world literature and guides intended for professionals at, for example, book auctions. In this book, researchers from different fields examine the significance and influence of that era's books from cultural, historical, ideological, and social perspectives. What kinds of books did the citizens of Helsinki really buy, loan, and read during the 1700s? What topics and ideas introduced by the new literature were discussed in salons and reading circles? Who were the books' large-scale consumers? Who were the literary opinion leaders of their times? Why did people read? Did the books change their readers' lives?

Author : Constance M. Furey,Sarah Hammerschlag,Amy Hollywood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226816128

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Devotion by Constance M. Furey,Sarah Hammerschlag,Amy Hollywood Pdf

"What brings religious scholars Constance Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollywood together in Devotion is a shared conviction that "reading helps us live with and through the unknown." For them, the nature of reading raises questions fundamental to how we think about our political futures and modes of human relation. Each essay suggests different ways to characterize the object of devotion and the stance of the devout subject before it. Furey writes about devotion in terms of vivification, energy, and artifice; Hammerschlag in terms of commentary, mimicry, and fetishism; and Hollywood in terms of anarchy, antinomianism, and atopia. They are interested in literature not as providing models for ethical, political, or religious life, but as creating the site in which the possible-and the impossible-transport the reader, enabling new forms of thought, habits of mind, and modes of life. Ranging from German theologian Martin Luther to French-Jewish philosopher Sarah Kofman to American poet Susan Howe, this volume is not just a reflection on forms of devotion, it is also an enactment of devotion itself"--

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134844173

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Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Isabel Rivers Pdf

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.

Author : Lady Mary Wroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015002734286

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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth Pdf

Author : Sarah Rolfe Prodan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043763

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Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism by Sarah Rolfe Prodan Pdf

In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems, thereby deepening our understanding of the artist's spiritual life in the context of Catholic Reform in the mid-sixteenth century. Prodan also demonstrates how Michelangelo's poetry is part of an Augustinian tradition that emphasizes mystical and moral evolution of the self. Examining such elements of early modern devotion as prayer, lauda singing, and the contemplation of religious images, Prodan provides a unique perspective on the subtleties of Michelangelo's approach to life and to art. Throughout, Prodan argues that Michelangelo's art can be more deeply understood when considered together with his poetry, which points to a spirituality that deeply informed all of his production.

Author : Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110487862

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The Mandaean Book of John by Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath Pdf

Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.