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Apocalyptic history and the Protestant cause in Sir Philip Sidney's revised Arcadia / Barbara Brumbaugh.
Van Pelt Library PR2342.A6 B67 2018
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2342.A6 B67 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brumbaugh, Barbara, author.
- Series:
- Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 468.
- Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 468
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.
- Sidney, Philip.
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Political and social views.
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
- Arcadia (Sidney, Philip).
- Apocalypse in literature.
- Protestantism and literature--History--16th century.
- Protestantism and literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Religion.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- Great Britain.
- England--Religion--16th century.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Place of Publication:
- Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2018.
- Summary:
- "This study challenges prevailing critical assumptions concerning Protestantism and the New Arcadia, offering a rereading of Sidney's Arcadia as an apocalyptic allegory centrally concerned with--and rhetorically designed to influence and contribute to--debates on church reform and other religio-political issues specific to Sidney's Elizabethan culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Apocalyptic history, Protestant politics, and allegorical methodology
- In the Revelation commentaries
- Protestant church historiography and Revelation commentaries and the Asia Minor narratives
- The early Asia Minor narratives and the primitive church
- Apocalyptic Arcadia and Elizabethan England
- Feeding upon Urania's "sweet words": overthrowing antichrist through devotion to the Word
- Erasmus in Arcadia
- Cecropia, Amphialus, and the church of antichrist
- Amphialus and the half-reformed Church of England
- The English church under the Tudor queens in Sidney's topical allegory
- Sidney's revised Arcadia as epic and apocalypse: an overview.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Ohio), 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780866985215
- 0866985212
- OCLC:
- 1028611934
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