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The Maudlin Impression

Author : Patricia Badir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124140695

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The Maudlin Impression investigates the figure of Mary Magdalene in post-medieval English religious writings and visual representations, as a lasting icon in Protestant writings even after the Reformation.

The Magdalene in the Reformation

Author : Margaret Arnold
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674989443

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The Magdalene in the Reformation by Margaret Arnold Pdf

Prostitute, apostle, evangelist—the conversion of Mary Magdalene from sinner to saint is one of the Christianity’s most compelling stories. Less appreciated is the critical role the Magdalene played in remaking modern Christianity. Margaret Arnold shows that the Magdalene inspired devotees eager to find new ways to relate to God and the Church.

Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama

Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108477031

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Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama by Lieke Stelling Pdf

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory

Author : Andrew Hiscock,Lina Perkins Wilder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317596844

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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory by Andrew Hiscock,Lina Perkins Wilder Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. The book begins with a series of "Critical Introductions" offering an overview of memory in particular areas of Shakespeare such as theatre, print culture, visual arts, post-colonial adaptation and new media. These essays both introduce the topic but also explore specific areas such as the way in which Shakespeare’s representation in the visual arts created a national and then a global poet. The entries then develop into more specific studies of the genre of Shakespeare, with sections on Tragedy, History, Comedy and Poetry, which include insightful readings of specific key plays. The book ends with a state of the art review of the area, charting major contributions to the debate, and illuminating areas for further study. The international range of contributors explore the nature of memory in religious, political, emotional and economic terms which are not only relevant to Shakespearean times, but to the way we think and read now.

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology

Author : Paul Cefalu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192536174

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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology by Paul Cefalu Pdf

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central than both Pauline theology and the Synoptic theology of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, particularly with regard to early modern polemicizing on the Trinity, distinctions between agape and eros, and the ideologies of radical dissent, especially the seventeenth-century antinomian challenge of free grace to traditional Puritan Pietism. In particular, early modern religious poetry, including works by Robert Southwell, George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Anna Trapnel, embraces a distinctive form of Johannine devotion that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John's mode of discipleship misunderstanding and dramatic irony. Early modern Johannine devotion assumes that religious lyrics often express a revelatory poetics that aims to clarify, typically through the use of dramatic irony, some of the deepest mysteries of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle.

First Impressions of England and Its People

Author : Hugh Miller
Publisher : New York : Hurst, [18--?]
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : England
ISBN : BL:A0026302714

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Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Author : Penny Howell Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351911238

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Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550 by Penny Howell Jolly Pdf

Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women. Using cultural ideas concerning the gendered and pregnant body, Jolly reveals how dress confirms the Magdalene’s multivalent nature. In some paintings, her gown’s opening laces betray her wantonness yet simultaneously mark her as Christ’s spiritually pregnant Bride; elsewhere ’undress’ reconfirms her erotic nature while paradoxically marking her penitence; in still other works, exotic finery expresses her sanctity while celebrating Antwerp’s textile industry. New image types arise, as when the saint appears as a lovesick musician playing a lute or as a melancholic contemplative, longing for Christ. Some depictions emphasize her intercessory role through innovative pictorial strategies that invite performative viewing or relate her to the mythological Pandora and Italian Renaissance Neoplatonism. Throughout, the Magdalene’s ambiguities destabilize readings of her imagery while engaging audiences across a broad social and religious spectrum.

Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Author : Nancy Bradley Warren
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268105839

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Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras by Nancy Bradley Warren Pdf

Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. The idea that Chaucer is an international writer raises no eyebrows. Similarly, a claim that Chaucer's writings participate in English confessional controversies in his own day and afterward provokes no surprise. This book breaks new ground by considering Chaucer's Continental interests as they inform his participation in religious debates concerning such subjects as female spirituality and Lollardy. Similarly, this project explores the little-studied ways in which those who took religious vows, especially nuns, engaged with works by Chaucer and in the Chaucerian tradition. Furthermore, while the early modern "Protestant Chaucer" is a familiar figure, this book explores the creation and circulation of an early modern "Catholic Chaucer" that has not received much attention. This study seeks to fill gaps in Chaucer scholarship by situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international textual environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries and crossing both the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. This book presents a nuanced analysis of the high stakes religiopolitical struggle inherent in the creation of the canon of English literature, a struggle that participates in the complex processes of national identity formation in Europe and the New World alike.

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36

Author : Paul Maurice Clogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442208131

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Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36 by Paul Maurice Clogan Pdf

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 36—Reviews—emphasizes new research in the field, with a particular focus on work from emerging scholars. Thus, this volume includes twenty-four reviews and three review articles of recent scholarly publications, along with five original articles. The first article “The Ultimate Transgression of the Courtly World” by Albrecht Classen analyzes German texts and melodies to reveal the social strife between the lower and upper classes. John Garrison’s essay “One Mind, One Heart, One Purse,” referencing the text Troilus and Criseyde, suggests that a medieval treatise on friendship is appropriate and engaging. Offering a solution to one of history’s most vexing problems is John Bugbee’s essay “Solving Dorigen Trilemma” by examining the tension between oath and law in the Franklin’s and Physician’s Tales. Karen Green’s essay “What Were the Ladies in the City Reading? The Libraries of Christine de Pizaan’s Contemporaries” provides a clearer insight into the intellect of Christine and her colleagues. Along with these articles, twenty-four reviews, from the United States and all over the world, are included, truly making Medievalia et Humanistica an international publication. To reflect the submissions and audience for Medievalia et Humanistica, the editorial and review boards have been expended to include ten members from the United States and ten international

Memory and the English Reformation

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.

The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform

Author : Gina M. Di Salvo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192689962

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The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform by Gina M. Di Salvo Pdf

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide, The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a tenth-century monastery to the Restoration stage. Through a reassessment of archival records of performance and religious change, this book challenges the established history of the saint play as a product of medieval devotional culture that ended with the national conversion to Protestantism during the Reformation. Not only did saints in performance frequently diverge from the narratives of devotional literature during the Middle Ages but also saints made a spectacular reappearance in the theatre of the early modern era. In the rupture between those two eras, the English church separated itself from the Cult of the Saints, and saints disappeared from public view until sainthood transformed from a matter of theology into a matter of theatricality. Early modern saint plays document a post-Reformation culture committed to saints—but not all saints. Certain ancient martyrs and British saints returned to the liturgical calendar in the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer. This limited inventory performed an initial de-Catholicization of these saints, but it did not recover their lives. Instead, the theatre produced new lives of the saints for the English public. A period of experimentation with saints and devils in the 1590s was followed by unprecedented innovation throughout the Stuart era. This book traces the transformation of sainthood in early modern drama from ambiguous supernatural association and negotiated patronage to a renaissance of miraculous theatricality and sacred place-making. By excavating saints in plays by Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, Massinger, and Rowley, as well as plays authored by relatively unknown dramatists, this book reconfigures how we think about the legacy of late medieval religious culture, the impact of Reformation change on literary texts and social practices, and the development of English theatre and drama.

Theatre/Performance Historiography

Author : R. Bank,M. Kobialka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137397300

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Theatre/Performance Historiography by R. Bank,M. Kobialka Pdf

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.

Queen of Heaven

Author : Lilla Grindlay
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268104122

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Queen of Heaven by Lilla Grindlay Pdf

The belief that the Virgin Mary was bodily assumed to be crowned as heaven’s Queen has been celebrated in the liturgy and literature of England since the fifth century. The upheaval of the Reformation brought radical changes in the beliefs surrounding the assumption and coronation, both of which were eliminated from state-approved liturgy. Queen of Heaven examines canonical as well as obscure images of the Blessed Mother that present fresh evidence of the incompleteness of the English Reformation. Through an analysis of works by writers such as Edmund Spenser, Henry Constable, Sir John Harington, and the writers of the early modern rosary books, which were contraband during the Reformation, Grindlay finds that these images did not simply disappear during this time as lost “Catholic” symbols, but instead became sources of resistance and controversy, reflecting the anxieties triggered by the religious changes of the era. Grindlay’s study of the Queen of Heaven affords an insight into England’s religious pluralism, revealing a porousness between medieval and early modern perspectives toward the Virgin and dispelling the notion that Catholic and Protestant attitudes on the subject were completely different. Grindlay reveals the extent to which the potent and treasured image of the Queen of Heaven was impossible to extinguish and remained of widespread cultural significance. Queen of Heaven will appeal to an academic audience, but its fresh, uncomplicated style will also engage intelligent, well-informed readers who have an interest in the Virgin Mary and in English Reformation history.