The Destruction Of Jerusalem In Early Modern English Literature
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The Destruction Of Jerusalem In Early Modern English Literature
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Author : Beatrice Groves
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-16
The Destruction Of Jerusalem In Early Modern English Literature written by Beatrice Groves and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.
Retelling The Siege Of Jerusalem In Early Modern England
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Author : Vanita Neelakanta
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2019-05-10
Retelling The Siege Of Jerusalem In Early Modern England written by Vanita Neelakanta and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This compelling book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English retellings of the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the way they informed and were informed by religious and political developments. The siege featured prominently in many early modern English sermons, ballads, plays, histories, and pamphlets, functioning as a touchstone for writers who sought to locate their own national drama of civil and religious tumult within a larger biblical and post-biblical context. Reformed England identified with besieged Jerusalem, establishing an equivalency between the Protestant church and the ancient Jewish nation but exposing fears that a displeased God could destroy his beloved nation. As print culture grew, secular interpretations of the siege ran alongside once-dominant providentialist narratives and spoke to the political anxieties in England as it was beginning to fashion a conception of itself as a nation. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Biblical Readings And Literary Writings In Early Modern England 1558 1625
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Author : Victoria Brownlee
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-09
Biblical Readings And Literary Writings In Early Modern England 1558 1625 written by Victoria Brownlee and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection between these readings and various forms of writing and argues that literary writings bear the hallmarks of the period's dominant exegetical practices, and do interpretative work. Tracing the impact of biblical reading across a range of genres and writers, the discussion demonstrates that literary reimaginings of, and allusions to, the Bible were common, varied, and ideologically evocative. The book explores how a series of popularly interpreted biblical narratives were recapitulated in the work of a diverse selection of writers, some of whom remain relatively unknown. In early modern England, the figures of Solomon, Job, and Christ's mother, Mary, and the books of Song of Songs and Revelation, are enmeshed in different ways with contemporary concerns, and their usage illustrates how the Bible's narratives could be turned to a fascinating array of debates. In showing the multifarious contexts in which biblical narratives were deployed, this book argues that Protestant interpretative practices contribute to, and problematize, literary constructions of a range of theological, political, and social debates.
The Political Bible In Early Modern England
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Author : Kevin Killeen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Political Bible In Early Modern England written by Kevin Killeen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.
The Siege Of Jerusalem
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2013-12-13
The Siege Of Jerusalem written by Anonymous and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-13 with Poetry categories.
The Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the story of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, an event viewed by its author (as by many in the Middle Ages) as divine retribution against Jews for the killing of Christ. It anachronistically turns first-century Roman emperors Titus and Vespasian into Christian converts who battle like medieval crusaders to avenge their savior and cleanse the Holy Land of enemies of the faith. It makes little sense without frank understanding of medieval Christian anti-Semitism. There is, nevertheless, some consensus that Siege is a finely crafted piece of poetry, and that its combination of horror, beauty, and learnedness makes it an effective work of art. As literary scholar A.C. Spearing has put it, “We may not like what the poet does, but it is done with skillful craftsmanship and sometimes with brilliant virtuosity.” The tale that the anonymous Siege poet tells, moreover, is an important and still reverberating part of the history of Western thinking about the East. It is, in Yehuda Amichai’s phrase, a “currency of the past” that continues to be negotiated. The first-century destruction of Jerusalem has been understood in both Christian and Jewish traditions as the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora; for medieval Christians it was also a model of successful Christian leadership and justified warfare, an allegory of political and personal spiritual battle. As part of the story of the historical rift between Christianity and Judaism—and of the inevitable victory of Christianity—the destroyed Second Temple was taken as symbolic of the fall of Judaism and the rise of the new Christian era in which anyone who rejected Christ would suffer. Written in alliterative verse in the late fourteenth century, The Siege of Jerusalem seems to have been popular in its day; at least nine fourteenth- and fifteen-century manuscripts containing the poem have come down to us. Yet this is the first volume to offer a full Modern English translation. In addition, appendices provide extensive samples of the alliterative original, a wide-ranging compendium of materials documenting anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages, comparative biblical passages, and much else.
A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Early Modern Age
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Author : Robert Henke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-08
A Cultural History Of Theatre In The Early Modern Age written by Robert Henke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with History categories.
For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the context of new capitalistic modes of production, the birth of the nation state and the rise of absolute monarchies, theatre also proved a highly mobile medium across geolinguistic boundaries. This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1400 to 1650, and examines the socioeconomically heterodox nature of theatre and performance during this period. Highly illustrated with 48 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
The Transformations Of Tragedy
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Author : Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-11-26
The Transformations Of Tragedy written by Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Religion categories.
The Transformations of Tragedy explores different Christian influences, from the Early Modern to Modern periods, upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy.
The Bible On The Shakespearean Stage
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Author : Thomas Fulton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-26
The Bible On The Shakespearean Stage written by Thomas Fulton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare's plays.
The Jew S Daughter
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Author : Efraim Sicher
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-05-04
The Jew S Daughter written by Efraim Sicher and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with Religion categories.
An innovative study of the gendering of ethnic difference in Western society, Sicher’s multidisciplinary, comparative analysis shows how racialized images have persisted and helped to form prejudiced views of the Other.
Early Modern Drama And The Bible
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Author : A. Streete
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Early Modern Drama And The Bible written by A. Streete and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.