Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture

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Edited by David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin, Madison, John Marshall, The Johns Hopkins University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2010
Print publication year:: 2006
Online ISBN:: 9780511627507
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627507

Subjects:: Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History

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This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume should be of interest to all literary, religious and political historians working on early modern English culture.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-vii

Notes on contributors
pp viii-x

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Writing and the persecution of heretics in Henry VIII's England: The Examinations of Anne Askew
pp 11-39

2 - Anabaptism and anti-Anabaptism in the early English Reformation: defining Protestant heresy and orthodoxy during the reign of Edward VI
pp 40-58

3 - “Godlie matrons” and “loose-bodied dames”: heresy and gender in the Family of Love
pp 59-81

4 - Puritanism, Familism, and heresy in early Stuart England: the case of John Etherington revisited
pp 82-107

5 - A ticklish business: defining heresy and orthodoxy in the Puritan revolution
pp 108-136

6 - Thomas Edwards's Gangraena and heresiological traditions
pp 137-159

7 - “And if God was one of us”: Paul Best, John Biddle, and anti-Trinitarian heresy in seventeenth-century England
pp 160-184

8 - The road to George Hill: the heretical dynamic of Winstanley's early prose
pp 185-202

9 - Milton and the heretical priesthood of Christ
pp 203-220

10 - An Historical Narration Concerning Heresie: Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Barlow, and the Restoration debate over “heresy”
pp 221-253

11 - Defining and redefining heresy up to Locke's Letters Concerning Toleration
pp 254-281

12 - “Take heed of being too forward in imposinge on others”: orthodoxy and heresy in the Baxterian tradition
pp 282-305

Index
pp 306-318

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