基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Shows how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices.
Full Description
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. Part One focuses on Northern Europe, reconsidering the relationship between Renaissance humanism (especially Erasmus) and religious ideas (especially Luther). Parts Two and Three examine Tudor and early Stuart England. Part Two describes the rise of vernacular theology and protestant culture in relation to fundamental changes in the understanding of the English language. Part Three studies English religious poetry (including Donne, Herbert, and in an Epilogue, Milton) in the wake of these changes. 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 literary production of this intensely verbal and controversial period.
Contents
Note to the Reader ; Abbreviations ; THE REFORMATION AND LITERARY CULTURE ; I. HUMANISM AND THEOLOGY IN NORTHERN EUROPE 1512-1527 ; The Reformation of the Reader ; New Grammar and New Theology ; Erasmus contra Luther ; II. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATIONS 1521-1603 ; Vernacular Theology ; Protestant Culture ; III. LITERATURE AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATIONS 1580-1640 ; Calvinist and Anti-Calvinist ; Recusant Poetry ; God's Grammar ; REVOLUTIONARY ENGLISH ; Primary Sources ; Secondary Sources ; Index
