{"product_id":"the-eye-of-the-eagle-james-m-m-francis-9783034302258","title":"The Eye of the Eagle: John Donne and the Legacy of Ignatius Loyola","description":"John Donne's family were committed Catholics. His two uncles were Jesuits. One of them, Jasper Heywood, was the leader of the Jesuit mission in England, while Donne's mother was a recusant who was forced to leave the country in 1595. In this detailed and historically contextualized study, the author argues that Donne was greatly influenced in his journey from militant Roman Catholicism to ordination in the Church of England by Ignatius of Loyola's religious ideals and in particular by his \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e The book describes the pervasive influence of the \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e on late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Catholicism and Protestantism. In this light, it offers a close reading of Donne's preordination religious poems and prose with constant reference to the sermons. These works are usually read through the tinted lenses of 'Catholicism' or 'Protestantism' or other religious '-isms'. The reading proposed here argues instead that Ignatius's \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e were for Donne a means to transcend the simplistic and perilous divisions of contemporary Catholicism and Protestantism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James M. M. Francis,Francesca Knox Bugliani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3034302258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783034302258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"James M. M. Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113790484735,"sku":"9783034302258","price":98.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_906563c2-8f52-4512-97b1-72b27ce0a4d6.jpg?v=1769617329","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-eye-of-the-eagle-james-m-m-francis-9783034302258","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}