Milton And Catholicism

Author : Ronald Corthell,Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268100841

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Milton and Catholicism by Ronald Corthell,Thomas N. Corns Pdf

This collection of original essays by literary critics and historians analyzes a wide range of Milton’s writing, from his early poetry, through his mid-century political prose, to De Doctrina Christiana, which was unpublished in his lifetime, and finally to his last and greatest poems. The contributors investigate the rich variety of approaches to Milton’s engagement with Catholicism and its relationship to reformed religion. The essays address latent tensions and contradictions, explore the nuances of Milton’s relationship to the easy commonplaces of Protestant compatriots, and disclose the polemical strategies and tactics that often shape that engagement. The contributors link Milton and Catholicism with early modern confessional conflicts between Catholics and Protestants that in turn led to new models and standards of authority, scholarship, and interiority. In Milton’s case, he deployed anti-Catholicism as a rhetorical device and the negative example out of which Protestants could shape their identity. The contributors argue that Milton’s anti-Catholicism aligns with his understanding of inwardness and conscience and illuminates one of the central conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in the period. Building on recent scholarship on Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses over the English Tudor and Stuart period, new understandings of martyrdom, and scholarship on Catholic women, Milton and Catholicism, provides a diverse and multifaceted investigation into a complex and little-explored field in Milton studies. Contributors: Alastair Bellany, Thomas Cogswell, Thomas N. Corns, Ronald Corthell, Angelica Duran, Martin Dzelzainis, John Flood, Estelle Haan, and Elizabeth Sauer.

Author : Milton Walsh
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586174866

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Into All Truth by Milton Walsh Pdf

Into All Truth presents the basic beliefs of the Catholic Church, beginning with the Resurrection. That extraordinary event prompted Jesus' followers to reflect on his identity and mission, which in turn led them to see the one God as an eternal communion of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Good News of the Catholic Church is that God invites every man and woman into this communion. With extensive use of the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the documents of the Second Vatican Council, Into All Truth explains clearly and succinctly the dogmas of the Catholic Church that flow from her faith in the Trinity. Each dogma is traced back to the faith of the first followers of Jesus, and its development over time is explored. Each chapter also outlines the implications of a given belief. The Resurrection, for example, has as much to say about human destiny as about the ultimate fate of Jesus. This book is intended for the general reader, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. An online study guide is available for use with this book. It is an ideal way for young adults, and older adults as well to deepen their understanding of the Catholic faith.

Author : Anthony Milton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521893291

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Catholic and Reformed by Anthony Milton Pdf

Challenging account of religious controversy between Catholic and Protestant before the Civil War.

Author : A. Marotti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230374881

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Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts by A. Marotti Pdf

Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.

Author : John N. King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521771986

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Milton and Religious Controversy by John N. King Pdf

Religious satire and polemic constitute an elusive presence in Paradise Lost. John N. King shows how Milton's poem takes on new meaning when understood as part of a strategy of protest against ecclesiastical formalism and clericalism. The experience of Adam and Eve before the Fall recalls many Puritan devotional habits. After the Fall, they are prone to 'idolatrous' ritual and ceremony that anticipate the religious 'error' of Milton's own age. Vituperative sermons, broadsides and pamphlets, notably Milton's own tracts, afford a valuable context for recovering the poem's engagement with the violent history of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Restoration, while contemporary visual satires help to clarify Miltonic practice. Eighteenth-century critics who attacked breaches of decorum and sublimity in Paradise Lost alternately deplored and ignored a literary and polemical tradition deployed by Milton's contemporaries. This important study, first published in 2000, sheds light on Milton's epic and its literary and religious contexts.

Author : Michael Cavanagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813232461

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Paradise Lost by Michael Cavanagh Pdf

"The author provides a book-by-book examination of Paradise Lost for the first-time reader, highlighting the important features of Milton's epic style"--

Author : Evan Haefeli
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813944920

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Against Popery by Evan Haefeli Pdf

Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest. As the essays collected in this volume demonstrate, anti-popery is a powerful lens through which to interpret the culture and politics of the British-American world. In early modern England, opposition to tyranny and corruption associated with the papacy could spark violent conflicts not only between Protestants and Catholics but among Protestants themselves. Yet anti-popery had a capacity for inclusion as well and contributed to the growth and stability of the first British Empire. Combining the religious and political concerns of the Protestant Empire into a powerful (if occasionally unpredictable) ideology, anti-popery affords an effective framework for analyzing and explaining Anglo-American politics, especially since it figured prominently in the American Revolution as well as others. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic working in history, literature, art history, and political science, the essays in Against Popery cover three centuries of English, Scottish, Irish, early American, and imperial history between the early sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. More comprehensive, inclusive, and far-reaching than earlier studies, this volume represents a major turning point, summing up earlier work and laying a broad foundation for future scholarship across disciplinary lines. Contributors: Craig Gallagher, New England College * Tim Harris, Brown University * Clare Haynes, Independent Researcher * Susan P. Liebell, St. Joseph’s University * Brendan McConville, Boston University * Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield * Andrew R. Murphy, Virginia Commonwealth University * Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker, Rutgers University, New Brunswick * Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa * Cynthia J. Van Zandt, University of New Hampshire * Peter W. Walker, University of Wyoming Early American Histories

Author : Catherine Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208297

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Milton’s Italy by Catherine Martin Pdf

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton’s own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline during and after Milton’s travels of 1638-1639, the period immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language, cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately influenced Milton’s "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated here.

Author : Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030428822

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Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan Pdf

This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.

Author : John Milton,Gustave Doré
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019070595

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Paradise Lost, Book 3 by John Milton,Gustave Doré Pdf

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Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : PRNC:32101068573029

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Areopagitica by John Milton Pdf

Author : Brendan Prawdzik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474421027

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Theatrical Milton by Brendan Prawdzik Pdf

Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage-to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate-rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1644
Category : Divorce
ISBN : UCD:31175035188625

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The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce by John Milton Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009223584

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The Masculinities of John Milton by Elizabeth Hodgson Pdf

This first published book on Milton's masculinities exposes how Milton constructs the power-cultures of manhood in his most famous works.

Author : John T. Shawcross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813157917

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John Milton by John T. Shawcross Pdf

The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of the person Milton -- the man whose poetic and prose works have been deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings? John Shawcross's "different" biography depicts the man against a psychological backdrop that brings into relief who he was -- in his works and from his works. While the theories of Freud, Lacan, Kohut, and others underlie this pursuit of Milton's "self," Jung and some of his followers provide the basic understanding by which Shawcross places Milton in the panorama of history. His explorations of the psychological underpinnings of Milton's decision to become a poet, of the homoerotic dimensions of his personality, and of his relationships with father and mother demonstrate the extent to which psychobiography proves itself invaluable as a means to appreciate this complex writer and his complex writings. This biography combines the traditional chronological narrative with a technique akin to that of fiction, "a mixture of times and a triggering of remembrances from various time frames without time differentiations." Such an approach offers a view of Milton "not only in being but in process of being." Shawcross's examination of two current concerns, gender attitudes and political ideologies, ranges Milton's work against the self he exhibits. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will find in this magisterial biography a wealth of new insight into one of the greatest of English poets.