A Last Elizabethan Journal V3
A Last Elizabethan Journal V3

Author: G.B. Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1136355855

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First Published in 1999. This is Volume III of a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean journals from 1591 to and 1610 and includes an Elizabethan journal, being a record of those things most talked of during the years 1599–1603.

Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals, 1591-1610
Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals, 1591-1610

Author: George Bagshawe Harrison

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999-08-19

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780415221436

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This set provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean World picture. The volumes vividly convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare; King James; the first voyage to the West Indies; the Great Plague of 1603; the Gunpowder Plot; the Civil War, and the first impact of Galileo's discoveries. In compiling these volumes, G.B. Harrison undertook a massive trawl of original sources of British social and political history of the period. Each journal contains a chronology of key events of the period, unfolding as they would for contemporaries. This rare panorama of one of England's most colourful periods in history provides an essential background for enlightened reading of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, offering as it does, crucial insights into influences affecting the literature and attitudes of the time.

A History of the English Bible as Literature
A History of the English Bible as Literature

Author: David Norton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-29

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9780521778077

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Revised and condensed from David Norton's acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book, first published in 2000, tells the story of English literary attitudes to the Bible. At first jeered at and mocked as English writing, then denigrated as having 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation', the King James Bible somehow became 'unsurpassed in the entire range of literature'. How so startling a change happened and how it affected the making of modern translations such as the Revised Version and the New English Bible is at the heart of this exploration of a vast range of religious, literary and cultural ideas. Translators, writers such as Donne, Milton, Bunyan and the Romantics, reactionary Bishops and radical students all help to show the changes in religious ideas and in standards of language and literature that created our sense of the most important book in English.