Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521820766 ISBN 13: 9780521820769

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume should be of interest to all literary, religious and political historians working on early modern English culture.

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Review of the hardback: 'Not many collections of essays are as coherent or successful as this one ...' The Review of English Studies

Book Description:

This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the changing conceptions, character and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume will interest all literary, religious, and political historians working on early modern English culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521820766
• ISBN 13: 9780521820769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Loewenstein David, Marshall John