Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521820769)

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.

Author: David Loewenstein
ISBN-10: 0521820766
ISBN-13: 9780521820769
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2007
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d