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Heresy, literature, and politics in early modern English culture /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Loewenstein, David, Marshall, John, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David Loewenstein and John Marshall
  • Writing and the persecution of heretics in Henry VIII's England : The examinations of Anne Askew / David Loewenstein
  • Anabaptism and anti-Anabaptism in the early English reformation : defining Protestant heresy and orthodoxy during the reign of Edward VI / Carrie Euler
  • "Godlie matrons" and "loose-bodied dames" : heresy and gender in the family of love / Christopher Marsh
  • Puritanism, familism, and heresy in early Stuart England : the case of John Etherington revisited / Peter Lake
  • A ticklish business : defining heresy and orthodoxy in the Puritan revolution / John Coffey
  • Thomas Edward's Gangraena and heresiological traditions / Ann Hughes
  • "And if God was one of us" : Paul Best, John Biddle, and anti-Trinitarian heresy in seventeenth-century England / Nigel Smith
  • The road to George Hill : the heretical dynamic of Winstanley's early prose / Thomas N. Corns
  • Milton and the heretical priesthood of Christ / John Rogers
  • An historical narration concerning heresie : Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Barlow, and the restoration debate over "heresy" / J.A.I. Champion
  • Defining and redefining heresy up to Locke's Letters concerning toleration / John Marshall
  • "Take heed of being too forward in imposinge on others" : orthodoxy and heresy in the Baxterian tradition / N.H. Keeble.