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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822038403321

Autore

Dodds Gregory D.

Titolo

Exploiting Erasmus : the Erasmian legacy and religious change in early modern England / / Gregory D. Dodds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9315-0

1-4426-8805-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Erasmus studies

Disciplina

199/.492

Soggetti

Religious thought - England - 16th century

Religious thought - England - 17th century

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Church history

Electronic books.

England Intellectual life 16th century

England Intellectual life 17th century

England Church history 16th century

England Church history 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Englishing of the Paraphrases -- Theology and rhetoric in the English Paraphrases -- Transmitting Erasmus in Elizabethan England -- The Erasmian perspective in the Elizabethan church -- The malleable Erasmus, 1603-1649 -- Constructing the moderate middle in early Stuart England -- Erasmian rhetoric and religious war -- The Erasmian legacy to 1689.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies the various ways in which his works were received, manipulated, and used in religious controversies that threatened both



church and state.