| Author | : Donna B. Hamilton |
| File Size | : 49,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 29 February 1996 |
| ISBN | : 9780521474566 |
| Pages | : 312 pages |
Religion Literature and Politics in Post Reformation England 1540 1688 by Donna B. Hamilton Book PDF Summary
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories. It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice, and authority.