05168nam 2200613Ia 450 991095925350332120251116153439.09780191518621019151862X(MiAaPQ)EBC7035666(CKB)24235101200041(MiAaPQ)EBC422870(Au-PeEL)EBL422870(CaPaEBR)ebr10194212(CaONFJC)MIL134610(OCoLC)476260120(Au-PeEL)EBL7035666(OCoLC)1336403421(EXLCZ)992423510120004120070914e20072002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe literary culture of the Reformation grammar and grace /Brian Cummings1st ed.Oxford Oxford University Press2007, c2002xvii, 470 p. facsOriginally published: 2002.Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- NOTE FOR THE READER -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Prologue -- 1 THE REFORMATION AND LITERARY CULTURE -- I: Grammatical Culture: Medieval to Renaissance -- II: Words and Things: Montaigne on Language -- III: The Textuality of the Ninety-Five Theses -- IV: Letter and Spirit: Luther's 1520 Pamphlets and More's Responsio -- V: The Gift of Language -- Part One: Humanism and Theology in Northern Europe 1512-1527 -- 2 THE REFORMATION OF THE READER -- I: Narratives of Conversion -- II: Luther the Reader -- III: From Luther to Augustine -- IV: Grammatica Theologica: Lectures on Psalms and Romans -- V: Justifying God -- 3 NEW GRAMMAR AND NEW THEOLOGY -- I: Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum and the New Grammar -- II: Erasmus and the Schools -- III: Scholastic Luther or Humanist Luther? -- IV: Humanism and the Modi Significandi -- V: Speech Acts: Solecisms and Felicities -- 4 ERASMUS CONTRA LUTHER -- I: The Politics of Interpretation -- II: The Proof-Text: Erasmus and Luther on Ecclesiasticus 15 -- III: Imperative versus Indicative -- IV: The Theologian and the Grammarian -- V: The Potter and the Clay -- Part Two: The English Language and the English Reformations 1521-1603 -- 5 VERNACULAR THEOLOGY -- I: Different Tongues: More versus Tyndale -- II: The Fall of Language -- III: Englishing Grammar -- IV: Theology Wars: The Reign of Henry VIII -- V: Wyatt's Writing Lesson: The Penitentiall Psalms -- 6 PROTESTANT CULTURE -- I: Cultural Reformation: Bucer in England -- II: Calvin's Commentaries -- III: The Logic of Calvinism -- IV: Original Defection: Sidney's Defence of Poesie -- V: Literature Anti-Literature -- Part Three: Literature and the English Reformations 1580-1640 -- 7 CALVINIST AND ANTI-CALVINIST -- I: English Calvinist Culture -- II: Predestination and Certainty: The Lambeth Articles.III: Fulke Greville's Beliefs: The Confidence of the Flesh -- IV: Purloined Letters: Andrewes, Hooker, Herbert, and Anti-Calvinism -- V: Herbert's The Temple: Grace and the Gift -- 8 RECUSANT POETRY -- I: Robert Southwell's Tears -- II: Repentance and Justification at the Council of Trent -- III: Confessional Poetry -- IV: Conditions of Grace: Saint Peters Complaint -- 9 GOD'S GRAMMAR -- I: Donne's Conversions -- II: Campion's Brag and Campion's Bloody Reasons -- III: The Noise of the Holy Sonnets -- IV: Donne's Dangerous Question -- V: Shall Be, That Is, May Be -- Epilogue -- 10 REVOLUTIONARY ENGLISH -- I: The Necessary Fall -- II: Milton's English -- III: Language and Error -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.The Literary Culture of the Reformation examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices. Bringing together genres and styles of writing which are normally kept apart (poems, sermons, treatises, commentaries) Brian Cummings offers a major re-evaluation of the literaryproduction of this intensely verbal and controversial period.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismReligious literature, EnglishEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismReligion in literatureReformation in literatureReformationEnglandReligion and literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Religious literature, EnglishHistory and criticism.Religion in literature.Reformation in literature.ReformationReligion and literature.820.93823Cummings Brian1487130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910959253503321The literary culture of the Reformation4464034UNINA