The literary culture of the Reformation grammar and grace Brian Cummings

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummings, Brian

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Religious literature, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Religious literature, English.

Religion in literature.

Reformation in literature.

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

Religion and literature.

English literature--Early modern.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press 2007, ©2002

Summary:

Brian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices. Bringing together genres and styles of writing which are normally kept apart (poems, sermons, treatises, commentaries), he offers a major re-evaluation of the literary production of this intensely verbal and controversial period. - ;Brian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning

Contents:

NOTE FOR THE READER; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; Prologue; Part One: Humanism and Theology in Northern Europe 1512-1527; Part Two: The English Language and the English Reformations 1521-1603; Part Three: Literature and the English Reformations 1580-1640; Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Originally published: 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Cummings, Brian. Literary culture of the Reformation

ISBN:

9780191518621

019151862X

OCLC:

314793841

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