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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825822503321

Titolo

Literature and the Scottish Reformation / / edited by Crawford Gribben and David George Mullan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, UK ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2009

ISBN

1-351-92197-5

1-351-92198-3

1-315-25041-1

1-282-09178-6

9786612091780

0-7546-9332-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history

Altri autori (Persone)

GribbenCrawford

MullanDavid George

Disciplina

274.11

274.11/06

274.1106

Soggetti

Reformation - Scotland

Scottish literature - To 1700 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Contexts; PART II Texts; PART III Reception; A few concluding observations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Literature and the Scottish Reformation offers a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and Reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value of the writing of the period - largely as a reaction to its regular theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by taking these interests seriously, and argues for the importance of this religiously orientated writing through the adoption of a series of interdisciplinary a