The Antichrist And The Lollards Apocalypticism In Late Medieval And Reformation England

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The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England

Author : Curtis V. Bostick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474536

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The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England by Curtis V. Bostick Pdf

This study examines expectations of imminent judgment that energized reform movements in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. It probes the apocalyptic vision of the Lollards, followers of the Oxford professor John Wycliff (1384). The Lollards repudiated the medieval church and established conventicles despite officially sanctioned prosecution. While exploring the full spectrum of late medieval apocalypticism, this work focuses on the diverse range of Wycliffite literature, political and religious treatises, sermons, biblical commentaries, including trial records, to reveal a dynamic strain of apocalyptic discourse. It shows that sixteenth-century English apocalypticism was fed by vibrant, indigenous Wycliffite well springs. The rhetoric of Lollard apocalypticism is analyzed and its effect on carriers and audiences is investigated, illuminating the rise of evil in church and society as perceived by the Lollards and their radical reform program.

Pastoral Care in Medieval England

Author : Peter Clarke,Sarah James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317083405

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Pastoral Care in Medieval England by Peter Clarke,Sarah James Pdf

Pastoral Care, the religious mission of the Church to minister to the laity and care for their spiritual welfare, has been a subject of growing interest in medieval studies. This volume breaks new ground with its broad chronological scope (from the early eleventh to the late fifteenth centuries), and its interdisciplinary breadth. New and established scholars from a range of disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history and musicology, bring their specialist perspectives to bear on textual and visual source materials. The varied contributions include discussions of politics, ecclesiology, book history, theology and patronage, forming a series of conversations that reveal both continuities and divergences across time and media, and exemplify the enriching effects of interdisciplinary work upon our understanding of this important topic.

New Medieval Literatures

Author : Wendy Scase,Rita Copeland,David Lawton
Publisher : New Medieval Literatures
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198187386

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New Medieval Literatures by Wendy Scase,Rita Copeland,David Lawton Pdf

New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.

A Companion to Lollardy

Author : Mishtooni Bose,Fiona Somerset,J. Patrick Hornbeck II
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004309852

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A Companion to Lollardy by Mishtooni Bose,Fiona Somerset,J. Patrick Hornbeck II Pdf

In A Companion to Lollardy, Patrick Hornbeck sums up what we know about lollardy, describes, its fortunes in the hands of its most recent chroniclers, explores the many individuals, practices, texts, and beliefs that have been called lollard.

Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England

Author : M. Hickerson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230510692

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Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England by M. Hickerson Pdf

Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England examines the portrayal of Protestant women martyrs in Tudor martyrology, focusing mainly on John Foxe's Book of Martyrs . Foxe's women martyrs often defy not just ecclesiastically and politically powerful men; they often defy their husbands by chastising them, disobeying them, and even leaving them altogether. While by marrying his female martyrs to Christ Foxe mitigates their subversion of patriarchy, under his pen his heroic women challenge the foundations of social and political order, offering an accessible model for resistance to antichristian rule.

Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England

Author : Nicholas Keene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351901543

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Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England by Nicholas Keene Pdf

The Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There have been many publications in the last quarter of a century on heterodoxy, particularly concentrating on the emergence of new sects in the mid-seventeenth century and the perceived onslaught on the clerical establishment by freethinkers and Deists in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century. However, the study of orthodoxy has languished far behind. This volume of complementary essays will be the first to embrace orthodox and heterodox treatments of scripture, and in the process question, challenge and redefine what historians mean when they use these terms. The collection will dispel the myth that a critical engagement with sacred texts was the preserve of radical figures: anti-scripturists, Quakers, Deists and freethinkers. For while the work of these people was significant, it formed only part of a far broader debate incorporating figures from across the theological spectrum engaging in a shared discourse. To explore this discourse, scholars have been drawn together from across the fields of history, theology and literary criticism. Areas of investigation include the inspiration, textual integrity and historicity of scriptural texts, the relative authority of canon and apocrypha, prophecy, the comparative merits of texts in different ancient languages, developing tools of critical scholarship, utopian and moral interpretations of scripture and how scholars read the Bible. Through a study of the interrelated themes of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, print culture and the public sphere, and the theory and practice of textual interpretation, our understanding of the histories of religion, theology, scholarship and reading in seventeenth-century England will be enhanced.

Martyrs' Mirror

Author : Adrian Chastain Weimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199390953

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Martyrs' Mirror by Adrian Chastain Weimer Pdf

Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and historical narratives of persecution. Memories of martyrdom, especially stories of the Protestants killed during the reign of Queen Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, were central to a model of holiness and political legitimacy. The colonists of early New England drew on this historical imagination in order to strengthen their authority in matters of religion during times of distress. By examining how the notions of persecution and martyrdom move in and out of the writing of the period, Adrian Chastain Weimer finds that the idea of the true church as a persecuted church infused colonial identity. Though contested, the martyrs formed a shared heritage, and fear of being labeled a persecutor, or even admiration for a cheerful sufferer, could serve to inspire religious tolerance. The sense of being persecuted also allowed colonists to avoid responsibility for aggression against Algonquian tribes. Surprisingly, those wishing to defend maltreated Christian Algonquians wrote their history as a continuation of the persecutions of the true church. This examination of the historical imagination of martyrdom contributes to our understanding of the meaning of suffering and holiness in English Protestant culture, of the significance of religious models to debates over political legitimacy, and of the cultural history of persecution and tolerance.

Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408802

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Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

No volume about the spectacles and public performances of early modern England could pretend to treat comprehensively a body of materials so conspicuously vast. Rather than efforts to survey the territory, these essays are best understood in the original sense of the term as “essays”—as trials, attempts, experiments to open alternative ways of understanding that vast corpus of mystery plays, civic pageants, court masques and professional dramas that constitute its subject. The book crosses traditional period lines, including studies of Medieval as well as Renaissance entertainments. Once more, the essays are not organized according to a single critical or historical methodology. They employ an eclectic range of interpretive practices, reflecting the variety of interpretive approaches now current in the field. Contributors include: Tiffany J. Alkan, Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Sarah Beckwith, Tom Bishop, Peter Cockett, Richard K. Emmerson, Peter Holland, Nora Johnson, Richard C. McCoy, Lauren Shohet, and Robert E. Stillman.

Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy

Author : Patrick Outhwaite
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914049262

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Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy by Patrick Outhwaite Pdf

A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health were intricately entwined in the Middle Ages, shaping intellectual concepts as well as actual treatment. The allegory of Christ as Divine Physician is an example of this intersection: it appears frequently in both medical and religious writings as a powerful figure of healing and salvation, and was invoked by dissidents and reformists in religious controversies. Drawing on previously unexplored manuscript material, this book examines the use of the Christus Medicus tradition during a period of religious turbulence. Via an interdisciplinary analysis of literature, sermons, and medical texts, it shows that Wycliffites in England and Hussites in Bohemia used concepts developed in hospital settings to press for increased lay access to Scripture and the sacraments against the strictures of the Church hierarchy. Tracing a story of reform and controversy from localised institutional contexts to two of the most important pan-European councils of the fifteenth century, Constance and Basel, it argues that at a point when the body of the Church was strained by multiple popes, heretics and schismatics, the allegory came into increasing use to restore health and order.

Allegory and Enchantment

Author : Jason Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198788041

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Allegory and Enchantment by Jason Crawford Pdf

Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Skelton's The Bowge of Courte, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Cross, Crown & Community

Author : David J. B. Trim,Peter J. Balderstone
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039100165

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Cross, Crown & Community by David J. B. Trim,Peter J. Balderstone Pdf

The values and institutions of the Christian Church remained massively dominant in early modern English society and culture, but its theology, liturgy and unity were increasingly disputed. The period was overall one of institutional conformity and individual diversity: the centrality of Christian religion was universally acknowledged; yet the nature of religion and of religious observance in England changed dramatically during the Reformation, Renaissance, and Restoration. Further, because English culture was still biblical and English society was still religious, the state involved itself in ecclesiastical matters to an extraordinary extent. Successive political and ecclesiastical administrations were committed to helping each other, but their attempts to mould religious beliefs and customs were effectively attempts to modify English culture. Church and state were complementary, yet because they were ultimately distinct estates, they could work only, at best, uneasily in partnership with each other. Cultural output is thus an ideal lens for examining this period of tension in the church, state and society of England. The case studies contained in this volume examine the intersection of politics, religion and society over the entire early modern period, through distinct examples of cultural texts produced and cultural practices followed.

Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation

Author : Malcolm B. Yarnell III
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191509766

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Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation by Malcolm B. Yarnell III Pdf

Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English Reformation. Historians and theologians often present the doctrine according to more recent debates rather than the contextual understandings manifested by the historical figures under consideration. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of John Wyclif and an incisive survey of late medieval accounts, the book challenges the predominant presentation of the doctrine of royal priesthood as primarily individualistic and anticlerical, in the process clarifying these other concepts. It also demonstrates that the late medieval period located more religious authority within the monarchy than is typically appreciated. After the revolutionary use of the doctrine by Martin Luther in early modern Germany, it was wielded variously between and within diverse English royal, clerical, and lay factions under Henry VIII and Edward VI, yet the Old and New Testament passages behind the doctrine were definitely construed in a monarchical direction. With Thomas Cranmer, the English evangelical presentation of the universal priesthood largely received its enduring official shape, but challenges came from within the English magisterium as well as from both radical and conservative religious thinkers. Under the sacred Tudor queens, who subtly and successfully maintained their own sacred authority, the various doctrinal positions hardened into a range of early modern forms with surprising permutations.

The Reformation and Robert Barnes

Author : Korey Maas
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843835349

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The Reformation and Robert Barnes by Korey Maas Pdf

In this examination of evangelical reformer Robert Barnes, the author provides a survey of his stormy career, a clear and concise analysis of his often misconstrued theology and a persuasive argument that the influence of Barnes and his polemical programme extended not only throughout England, but throughout Europe.

High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524

Author : Eric Leland Saak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474598

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High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524 by Eric Leland Saak Pdf

This volume reveals the political, religious, theological, institutional, and mythical ideals that formed the self-identity of the Augustinian Order from Giles of Rome to the emergence of Martin Luther. Based on detailed philological analysis, this interdisciplinary study not only transforms the understanding of Augustine's heritage in the later Middle Ages, but also that of Luther's relationship to his Order. The work offers a new interpretative model of late medieval religious culture that sheds new light on the relationship between late medieval Passion devotion, the increasing demonization of the Jews, and the rise of catechetical literature. It is the first volume of a planned trilogy that seeks to return late medieval Augustinian theology to the historical context of Augustinian religion.

Salvation at Stake

Author : Brad S. Gregory
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674264069

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Salvation at Stake by Brad S. Gregory Pdf

Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities. Brad S. Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth, and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources, including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence, and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction, and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists keen to dispute.