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Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688

By: Publication details: Cambridge University Press 1996Description: 249 pagesISBN:
  • 9780521474566
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.05 HAM
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This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories. It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice, and authority.

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