The Reformation Unsettled - Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen
British Literature and the Question of Religious Identity, 1560-1660
KORTE INHOUD
Recent historical studies have emphasized that the English Reformation can no longer be seen as an inevitable response to abuses within the late-medieval Western ('Catholic') Church. Contrary to Protestant stereotypes, the late-medieval Church catered to the spiritual needs of its members. In addition, the English Reformation was an incomplete process and, even after the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559, English religious culture was full of continuities with the past, with pre-Reformation religious culture only partially displaced. This essay collection investigates how the literature of the first century after the Elizabethan Settlement dealt with this cultural ambivalence. Focusing on a mixture of canonical texts and less well-known ones, the contributors show that the religious hybridity of early-modern England is found in a concentrated form in the literary texts of the period. In contrast to theologians, literary writers were not obliged to choose sides. Literary discourse could confront incompatible doct...
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2009Uitgever: Brepols Publishers244 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503526241ISBN-13: 9782503526249Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Britain was officially Protestant but also haunted by its recent Catholic past; this essay collection investigates how this ambivalence is explored in the literary texts of this era. Recent historical studies have emphasized that the English Reformation can no longer be seen as an inevitable response to abuses within the late-medieval Western ('Catholic') Church. Contrary to Protestant stereotypes, the late-medieval Church catered to the spiritual needs of its m...
