Reformation fictions: polemical protestant dialogues in Elizabethan England

Reformation Fictions rehabilitates a body of little-known Elizabethan texts. It takes some twenty polemical Protestant dialogues written predominantly by puritan clerics, and for the first time gives them a literary, historicist and,to a lesser extent, theological reading. INDICE: I. Introduction; II. Dialogues profitable, delightsome and bold; 1: De utilitate colloquiorum; 2: The authors, their creations, and the nature of fiction; III. Tudor Precursors; 1: Henrician priests and insubordinate servants; 2: The Edwardian Whore of Babylon; 3: Marian wolves; IV. 'Englishing' Pierre Viret: the Case of John Véron; 1: Pierre Viret's Disputations chrestiennes; 2: 'Englishing' Pierre Viret or The Huntynge of Purgatorye to Death; 3: Véron's rhetoric of refutation; V. Fear of Popery; 1: French butchers and Spanish galleons; 2: The Campion affair: John Nicholls and George Gifford; 3: Francis Savage and recusant wives; VI. Puritans against the Bishops; 1: Archbishop Parker's comely, one-eyed chaplain; 2: Bitter laughter: John Udall, Job Throckmorton and Martin Marprelate; VII. Fear of Atheism; 1: George Gifford's country parishioner; 2: I. B.'s country parson; VIII. Applying oneself to the capacity of the unlearned; A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-960469-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés