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Book Of the laws of ecclesiasticall politie  London 1594

Download or read book Of the laws of ecclesiasticall politie London 1594 written by Richard Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1604 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare s England

Download or read book Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare s England written by Kristen Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest.

Book War  the State and International Law in Seventeenth Century Europe

Download or read book War the State and International Law in Seventeenth Century Europe written by Olaf Asbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals. Why was it that the foundation and institutionalisation of secured peace and the rule of law seemed to go hand-in-hand with the proliferation of war and the violation of individual and collective rights? In order to try to better understand such profound questions, this volume explores the history and theories of political thought of international relations in the seventeenth century, a period in which many of the defining features and boundaries of modern Europe where fixed and codified. With the discovery of the New World, and the fundamental impact of the Reformation, the complexity of international relations increased considerably. Reactions to these upheavals resulted in a range of responses intended to address the contradictions and conflicts of the anarchical society of states. Alongside the emergence of "modern" international law, the equation of international relations with the state of nature, and the development of the "balance of power", diplomatic procedures and commercial customs arose which shaped the emerging (and current) international system of states. Employing a multidisciplinary approach to address these issues, this volume brings together political scientists, philosophers, historians of political thought, jurists and scholars of international relations. What emerges is a certain tension between the different strands of research which allows for a fruitful new synthesis. In this respect the assembled essays in this volume offer a sophisticated and fresh account of the interactions of law, conflict and the nation state in an early-modern European context.

Book Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton

Download or read book Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton written by Erin Minear and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual sensibility. They portray music as uncanny and divine, expressive and opaque, promoting associative rather than logical thought processes and unearthing unexpected memories. The title reflects the multiple and overlapping meanings of reverberation in the study: the lingering and infectious nature of musical sound; the questionable status of audible, earthly music as an echo of celestial harmonies; and one writer's allusions to another. Minear argues that many of the qualities that seem to us characteristically 'Shakespearean' stem from Shakespeare's engagement with how music works-and that Milton was deeply influenced by this aspect of Shakespearean poetics. Analyzing Milton's account of Shakespeare's 'warbled notes,' she demonstrates that he saw Shakespeare as a peculiarly musical poet, deeply and obscurely moving his audience with language that has ceased to mean, but nonetheless lingers hauntingly in the mind. Obsessed with the relationship between words and music for reasons of his own, including his father's profession as a composer, Milton would adopt, adapt, and finally reject Shakespeare's form of musical poetics in his own quest to 'join the angel choir.' Offering a new way of looking at the work of two major authors, this study engages and challenges scholars of Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern culture.

Book A Political Biography of William King

Download or read book A Political Biography of William King written by Christopher Fauske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William King (1650–1729) was perhaps the dominant Irish intellect of the period from 1688 until his death in 1729. An Anglican (Church of Ireland) by conversion, King was a strident critic of John Toland and the clerical superior of Jonathan Swift.

Book Church State Corporation

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  • Author : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 022645469X
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Church State Corporation written by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is “the church,” and how is it understood in US law today? In Church State Corporation, religion and law scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan uncovers the deeply ambiguous and often unacknowledged ways in which Christian theology remains alive and at work in the American legal imagination. Through readings of the opinions of the US Supreme Court and other legal texts, Sullivan shows how “the church” as a religious collective is granted special privilege in US law. In-depth analyses of Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby reveal that the law tends to honor the religious rights of the group—whether in the form of a church, as in Hosanna-Tabor, or in corporate form, as in Hobby Lobby—over the rights of the individual, offering corporate religious entities an autonomy denied to their respective members. In discussing the various communities that construct the “church-shaped space” in American law, Sullivan also delves into disputes over church property, the legal exploitation of the black church in the criminal justice system, and the recent case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Brimming with insight, Church State Corporation provocatively challenges our most basic beliefs about the ties between religion and law in ostensibly secular democracies.

Book Shakespeare and Law

Download or read book Shakespeare and Law written by Andrew Zurcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities and quillets, Pandarus' peine forte et dure. In this new study, Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language, texts, concepts, and arguments in a range of plays and poems. Following a preface that situates Shakespeare's life within the various legal communities of his Stratford and London periods, Zurcher reconsiders the ways in which Shakespeare adapts legal language and concepts to figure problems about being, knowing, reading, interpretation, and action. In challenging new readings of plays from King John and Henry IV to As You Like It and Hamlet, Shakespeare and Law reveals the importance of early modern common legal thinking to Shakespeare's representations of inheritance, possession, gift-giving, oath-swearing, contract, sovereignty, judgment, and conscience - and, finally, to our own reception and interpretation of his works.

Book Classic and Cavalier

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  • Author : Claude J. Summers
  • Publisher : Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Classic and Cavalier written by Claude J. Summers and published by Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fifteen essays ... originated as submissions to the fourth Biennial Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan--Dearborn"--P. xiv.

Book History  Law  and the Human Sciences

Download or read book History Law and the Human Sciences written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Editions of the Principal English Classics

Download or read book Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Editions of the Principal English Classics written by John Rylands Library and published by Manchester : Printed by order of the Governors. This book was released on 1910 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Richard Hooker

Download or read book A Companion to Richard Hooker written by William J. Torrance Kirby and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hooker explained and defended the Elizabethan religious and political settlement, and shaped the self-understanding of the Church of England for generations. This Companion offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Hookera (TM)s life, works, thought, reputation, and influence.

Book The Worth of Persons

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  • Author : James Franklin
  • Publisher : Encounter Books
  • Release : 2022-10-25
  • ISBN : 1641772794
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book The Worth of Persons written by James Franklin and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a person is a tragedy while the explosion of a lifeless galaxy is a mere firework. The moral difference is grounded in the nature of humans: humans have intrinsic worth, a worth that makes their fate really matter. This is the worth that the Australian philosopher James Franklin proposes as the foundation of ethics. In The Worth of Persons he explains that ethics in the usual sense of right and wrong actions, rights and virtues, and how to live a good life, is founded on something more basic that is not itself about actions, namely the worth of persons. Human moral worth arises from certain properties that distinguish humans from the rest of creation (though some animals share a lesser degree of those properties): rationality, consciousness, the ability to act for reasons, emotional structure and love, individuality. This complex package makes humans the "piece of work" of which Hamlet says, “How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty." In clear prose and deeply informed philosophical argument, The Worth of Persons establishes a foundation for ethics in the equal worth of persons, which makes ethics absolutely objective and immune to relativist attacks because it is based on the metaphysical truth about humans. The Worth of Persons will appeal to all those who feel that endless debate about ethical dilemmas, rules, and principles fails to connect with what is really important ethically, that is, what makes humans matter.

Book Spenser s Legal Language

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  • Author : Andrew Zurcher
  • Publisher : DS Brewer
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781843841333
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Spenser s Legal Language written by Andrew Zurcher and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Spenser's linguistic experimentation and his engagement with political, and particularly legal, thought and language in his major works, demonstrating by thorough lexical analysis and illustrative readings how Spenser figured the nation both descriptively and prescriptively.

Book The Church of England  The English Reformation

Download or read book The Church of England The English Reformation written by Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Hooker

Download or read book Richard Hooker written by Stanley Archer and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Shadow of Leviathan

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  • Author : Jeffrey R. Collins
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-20
  • ISBN : 1108478816
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book In the Shadow of Leviathan written by Jeffrey R. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.