03614oam 2200805I 450 991081273970332120240131144230.01-135-13231-31-283-97268-90-203-07754-71-135-13232-110.4324/9780203077542 (CKB)2670000000325558(EBL)1114652(OCoLC)827208975(SSID)ssj0000822328(PQKBManifestationID)12281619(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822328(PQKBWorkID)10755101(PQKB)11048275(MiAaPQ)EBC1114652(Au-PeEL)EBL1114652(CaPaEBR)ebr10650250(CaONFJC)MIL428518(OCoLC)826685146(FINmELB)ELB132528(EXLCZ)99267000000032555820180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPatrons and patron saints in early modern English literature /Alison A. ChapmanNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (250 p.)Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;21Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;21Description based upon print version of record.1-138-11859-1 0-415-65684-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.The patrons of heaven and earth -- National saints and The faerie queene -- Jonson's hagiographic parody -- Saints, guilds, and players in Shakespeare's histories -- Drayton, the Middle Ages, and the genii loci -- Donne's hagiographic tolerance -- Milton and the border saints.This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ""patron"" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and CultureEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismAuthors and patronsEnglandHistory16th centuryAuthors and patronsEnglandHistory17th centuryChristian patron saintsSaints in literatureReligion and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryReligion and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryLiterary patronsGreat BritainEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Authors and patronsHistoryAuthors and patronsHistoryChristian patron saints.Saints in literature.Religion and literatureHistoryReligion and literatureHistoryLiterary patrons820.9/003Chapman Alison1970-,292902MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812739703321Patrons and patron saints in early modern English literature4021017UNINA