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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780076803321

Autore

Barbour Reid

Titolo

Literature and religious culture in seventeenth-century England / / Reid Barbour [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11143-9

1-280-15163-3

0-511-11640-3

0-511-15580-8

0-511-30399-8

0-511-48344-9

0-511-05256-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/3823

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century

Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century

Protestantism and literature - History - 17th century

Great Britain History Charles I, 1625-1649

England Intellectual life 17th century

England Church history 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: spirit and circumstance in Caroline Protestantism -- ; 1. The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding -- ; 2. Great Tew and the skeptical hero -- ; 3. Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful -- ; 4. Respecting persons -- ; 5. Decorum and redemption in the theater of the person -- ; 6. Nature (I): post-Baconian mysteries -- ; 7. Nature (II): church and cosmos -- Conclusion: Rome, Massachusetts, and the Caroline Protestant imagination.

Sommario/riassunto

Reid Barbour's 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers



explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavours, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. Barbour examines sermons and theological treatises to argue that Caroline religious culture comprises a rich and extensive stocktaking of the conditions in which Protestantism was celebrated, undercut, and experienced. Barbour argues that this stocktaking was also carried out in unusual and sometimes quite secular contexts; in the masques, plays and poetry of the era as well as in scientific works and diaries. This broad-ranging study offers an extensive appraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.