Contributor
Hiscock, Andrew, 1962- editor.
ImprintOxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description1 online resource : illustrations.
Note:Drama / Adrian Streete -- Sermons / Jeanne Shami -- Autobiographical writings / Kate Hodgkin -- Satire and polemic / Anne Lake Prescott -- Neo-Latin Writings and Religion / Jan Bloemendal -- 'what England has to offer': Erasmus, Colet, More and their Circle / Andrew Hiscock -- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants / Mike Pincombe, Gavin Schwart-Leeper -- Edmund Spenser / Elizabeth Heale -- Christopher Marlowe and Religion / Lisa Hopkins -- Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert: Piety and Poetry / Nandra Perry, Robert E. Stillman -- The Pre-Reformation Landscape / Stephen Kelly -- John Donne / Hugh Adlington -- Lucy Hutchinson / Robert Wilcher -- John Milton / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- Female Religious houses / Nicky Hallett -- Lay Households / Suzanne Trill -- Exiles at Home / Alison Searle -- Exiles Abroad / Jaime Goodrich -- Sectarian groups / Johanna Harris -- Quakers / Catie Gill -- The Jewish Diaspora / Jeffrey Shoulson -- The Henrician Settlement / David Bagchi -- Islamic Communities / Bernadette Andrea -- Settlers in New Worlds / Christopher Hodgkins -- Body and Soul / Margaret Ezell -- The Bible / Hannibal Hamlin -- Sacred and Secular Love: 'I will lament, and love' / Helen Wilcox -- Authority, Religion and the State / Timothy Rosendale -- 'Finding the genuine light of nature': Religion and Science / Bronwen Price -- The Art and Craft of Dying / Peter Carlson -- Sin, Judgment and Eternity / P.G. Stanwood -- Religious Change in the Mid-Tudor period / John N. King -- Prayer and Prophecy / Erica Longfellow -- Lyric Poetry / Elizabeth Clarke, Simon Jackson -- The Elizabethan Church of England and the origins of Anglicanism / Torrance Kirby -- Early Stuart Controversy: Church, State and the Sacred / Charles W. A. Prior -- Religion in times of War and Republic 1642-1660 / Jacqueline Eales -- Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts / Grant Tapsell -- Translation / Rachel Willie.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target AudienceSpecialized.
Note:This handbook scrutinises the links between English literature and religion, specifically in the early modern period; the interactions between the two fields are explored through an examination of the literary impact the British church had on published work in the 16th and 17th centuries.
E-Resource:Electronic resource:
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