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Love's quarrels : reading charity in early modern England /

"Early modern English writers often complained that 'charity had grown cold, ' lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political, and religious changes that prompt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gurney, Evan A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Series:Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Charitable translation: Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Vagrant text
  • Charitable admonition: moral reform in Elizabethan polemic and satire
  • Charitable allegory: figures of love in Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Charitable use: Ben Jonson, city comedy, and commercial charity
  • Charitable singularity: negotiations of liberty in Civil War England.