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Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0521820766, 9780521820769
Open Library ID
OL22742378M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1869992 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
328\329
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume should be of interest to all literary, religious and political historians working on early modern English culture.

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