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Patrons and patron saints in early modern English literature /

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ""patron"" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chapman, Alison, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, ©2013.
Colección:Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The patrons of heaven and earth
  • National saints and The faerie queene
  • Jonson's hagiographic parody
  • Saints, guilds, and players in Shakespeare's histories
  • Drayton, the Middle Ages, and the genii loci
  • Donne's hagiographic tolerance
  • Milton and the border saints.