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Book Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr  Herbert s Temple  1697

Download or read book Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr Herbert s Temple 1697 written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton

Download or read book Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton written by Achsah Guibbory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between literature and religious conflict in seventeenth-century England, showing how literary texts grew out of and addressed the contemporary controversy over ceremonial worship. Examining the meaning and function of religion in seventeenth-century England, Achsah Guibbory shows that the conflicts over religious ceremony that were central to the English Revolution had broad cultural significance. She offers new and original readings of Herbert, Herrick, Browne and Milton in this context.

Book Heart Work

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  • Author : Cristina Malcolmson
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780804729888
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Heart Work written by Cristina Malcolmson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places George Herbert's writing and biography within the history of social and economic change in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on the works of Max Weber, Raymond Williams, and the Protestant preachers of the period, the author argues that the doctrine of vocation is the shaping principle of The Temple and the prose manual The Country Parson, which coordinate inward devotion with outward social role like the soul with the body. This form of early modern subjectivity is shown to be significantly at odds with the system of status and yet developed in order to preserve traditional models of community. The book demonstrates that Herbert's family shared his Protestant vision of "the common good," which included innovations in agriculture and mining, colonization of the Americas, and a worldwide trade nexus. William Herbert, patron of Shakespeare and head of the Protestant faction at court and in Parliament, was also George Herbert's patron, and George's involvement with this faction is offered as the explanation for his lack of patronage from an increasingly Anglo-Catholic court. His position as a country parson required the renunciation of ambition and a new ideal of the "character" of holiness but in no way decreased his dedication to the Protestant linking of religion and enterprise. The author explores the poetic coterie out of which Herbert's lyrics were generated, the remarkable revisions that erased an earlier version of The Temple authorizing social mobility, and the role of class in the poetic collection as well as in modern critical accounts. Herbert's use of the pastoral is considered in relation to his family's practice of gardening, which redefined economic innovation as moral reformation. The author argues that Herbert's works and those of his family make visible the influence of and the resistance to the new capitalist economic system emerging in the early modern period.

Book Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Protestantism written by Hans J. Hillerbrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 4050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information including sample entries, full contents listing, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of Protestantism web site. Routledge is proud to announce the publication of a new major reference work from world-renowned scholar Hans J. Hillerbrand. The Encyclopedia of Protestantism is the definitive reference to the history and beliefs that continue to exert a profound influence on Western thought. Featuring entries written by an international team of specialists and scholars, the encyclopedia traces the course of Protestantism from its beginnings prior to 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, to the vital and diverse international scene of the present day.

Book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe

Download or read book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe offers an expansive view of the Protestant reception of medieval mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century. Providing a foundation and impetus for future research, the chapters in this handbook cover diverse figures from across the Protestant traditions (Lutheran, Reformed, Radical), summarizing existing research, analysing relevant sources, and proposing new directions for study. Each chapter is authored by a leading scholar in the field. Collectively, Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe calls for a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship of Protestantism to its medieval past, to Roman Catholicism, and to the enduring mystical element of Christianity.

Book The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce

Download or read book The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce' is a bawdy, comedy of manners play written by William Mountfort. As one can guess, it's a parody of sorts of the play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. The difference between the two works is best summed up in the following: "Marlowe's tragedy has two distinct lines: the mighty verse which makes up the tragedy of an heroic overreacher, and a comic line of farcical lazzi. Mountfort has trimmed away the poetry of Marlowe and, for the most part, retained the farcical elements of the earlier play."

Book Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition

Download or read book Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition written by Kenneth E. Stevenson and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Church continues to try to clarify the meaning of baptism, well-known liturgical scholar Kenneth Stevenson provides important insights into the historical issues with which we still wrestle. Is baptism a private or a public act? Is the symbolism of the rite still appropriate? Does the language of the baptismal service remain meaningful in a secular age? In order to answer these and other pressing questions, we must understand the thinking of those who have come before us. Stevenson does just that by looking at the writings of the 17th century Anglican divines such as Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, Richard Hooker, Richard Baxter, Jeremy Taylor and others, all of whom have a vital and prophetic significance for our understanding and practice of baptism today.

Book Lyric Generations

Download or read book Lyric Generations written by G. Gabrielle Starr and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice.

Book Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street  Cripplegate

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street Cripplegate written by Dr. Williams's Library and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street   Founded Pursuant to the Will of the Reverend

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street Founded Pursuant to the Will of the Reverend written by Daniel Williams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

Book Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English

Download or read book Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English written by Peter Petré and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing on their dynamic and historical dimension. Changes in these are analyzed in order to explain morphological, lexical, and textual changes that would otherwise be hard to account for. Together, they provide a varied window on the effect of historical versions of a dynamic society on lexis and text. Examining lexical and textual change in history from a sociocultural perspective teaches us a great deal – not just about the past, but it also makes us think about similar phenomena in the present, enhancing our knowledge about how universally human some of these phenomena are. This volume will be of great interest to (English) historical linguists, sociolinguists, and scholars of sociohistorical and cultural studies.

Book Writing and Religion in England  1558 1689

Download or read book Writing and Religion in England 1558 1689 written by Anthony W. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fruit of intensive collaboration among leading international specialists on the literature, religion and culture of early modern England, this volume examines the relationship between writing and religion in England from 1558, the year of the Elizabethan Settlement, up until the Act of Toleration of 1689. Throughout these studies, religious writing is broadly taken as being 'communicational' in the etymological sense: that is, as a medium which played a significant role in the creation or consolidation of communities. Some texts shaped or reinforced one particular kind of religious identity, whereas others fostered communities which cut across the religious borderlines which prevailed in other areas of social interaction. For a number of the scholars writing here, such communal differences correlate with different ways of drawing on the resources of cultural memory. The denominational spectrum covered ranges from several varieties of Dissent, through via media Anglicanism, to Laudianism and Roman Catholicism, and there are also glances towards heresy and the mid-seventeenth century's new atheism. With respect to the range of different genres examined, the volume spans the gamut from poetry, fictional prose, drama, court masque, sermons, devotional works, theological treatises, confessions of faith, church constitutions, tracts, and letters, to history-writing and translation. Arranged in roughly chronological order, Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689 presents chapters which explore religious writing within the wider contexts of culture, ideas, attitudes, and law, as well as studies which concentrate more on the texts and readerships of particular writers. Several contributors embrace an inter-arts orientation, relating writing to liturgical ceremony, painting, music and architecture, while others opt for a stronger sociological slant, explicitly emphasizing the role of women writers and of writers from different sub-cultural backgrounds.

Book An Collins and the Historical Imagination

Download or read book An Collins and the Historical Imagination written by W. Scott Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edited collection of scholarly essays to focus exclusively on An Collins, this volume examines the significance of an important religious and political poet from seventeenth-century England. The book celebrates Collins’s writing within her own time and ours through a comprehensive assessment of her poetics, literary, religious and political contexts, critical reception, and scholarly tradition. An Collins and the Historical Imagination engages with the complete arc of research and interpretation concerning Collins’s poetry from 1653 to the present. The volume defines the center and circumference of Collins scholarship for twenty-first century readers. The book’s thematically linked chapters and appendices provide a multifaceted investigation of An Collins’s writing, religious and political milieu, and literary legacy within her time and ours.

Book George Herbert s Christian Narrative

Download or read book George Herbert s Christian Narrative written by Harold Toliver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

Download or read book George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture written by Simon Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert's religious verse.