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Literature and religious culture in seventeenth-century England /

"Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). In the decades leading to the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of hero...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barbour, Reid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: spirit and circumstance in Caroline Protestantism
  • 1. The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding
  • 2. Great Tew and the skeptical hero
  • 3. Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful
  • 4. Respecting persons
  • 5. Decorum and redemption in the theater of the person
  • 6. Nature (I): post-Baconian mysteries
  • 7. Nature (II): church and cosmos
  • Conclusion: Rome, Massachusetts, and the Caroline Protestant imagination.