The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism

The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism

Author: John Coffey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-10-09

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 1139827820

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'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.


Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

Author: Anthony Fletcher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-06-04

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521349321

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This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.


The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

Author: Anne Dunan-Page

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0521733081

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A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.


Sidney: Court Maxims

Sidney: Court Maxims

Author: Algernon Sidney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-02-23

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780521467360

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This remarkable expression of radical republican thought has never before been published. Algernon Sidney was among the most unrelenting partisans of the parliamentary party during the Commonwealth, and died on the scaffold in 1683 for his opposition to Charles II. Sidney's voluminous Discourses Concerning Government was published after his death, but the earlier and more vivid Court Maxims was only recently rediscovered in a manuscript in Warwick Castle. Written during Sidney's continental exile, Court Maxims is of the greatest importance for the study of the international ramifications of seventeenth-century republican thought. Its dialogue structure presents a lively discussion about the principles of government and the practice of politics, articulating a vital tradition of republicanism in an age of absolutism. These characteristics make Court Maxims a unique text, essential reading for anyone interested in republicanism or early modern political thought.


The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon

The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon

Author: Jon Mandle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-12-11

Total Pages: 1112

ISBN-13: 1316193985

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John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.


Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas

Author: Linda Levy Peck

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1526175339

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Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women’s agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women’s experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.


The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature

The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature

Author: David Loewenstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1064

ISBN-13: 9780521631563

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Now available in paperback, this is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. It offers new perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history, its twenty-six chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. The book has five sections: Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception , The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I , The Era of Elizabeth and James VI , The Earlier Stuart Era , and The Civil War and Commonwealth Era . While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including women s writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This innovatively-designed history is an essential resource for specialists and students.


Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe

Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe

Author: Phyllis Mack

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521527026

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Essays taking up themes that have resonated through Professor Koenigsberger's lectures, seminars and public writings.