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Telling tears in the English Renaissance
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ISBN: 9789004477902 9789004105171 9004105174 Year: 1996 Publisher: Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E.J. Brill,

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Tears and weeping are, at once, human universals and socially-constrained phenomena. This volume explores the interface between those two viewpoints by examining medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to see how dominant paradigms regarded who could, who must, and who must not weep. These paradigms shifted in some cases radically, during these centuries. Without a clear understanding of how the Renaissance 'read' tears, it is difficult to avoid using our own preconceptions - often quite different and very misleading. There are five chapters; one on medical and scientific material, two on sermons, and two on different types of lyric.

Religion, allegory, and literacy in early modern England, 1560-1640 : the control of the world
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ISBN: 9780754651475 0754651479 Year: 2006 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate

The Pathology of the English Renaissance: Sacred Remains and Holy Ghosts
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ISBN: 9004111956 9004474285 9789004111950 9789004474284 Year: 1998 Volume: 86 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : Brill

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This examination of the fate of lost ideas after the Protestant reformation explores what might be called the pathology of the Renaissance. The first part of the book treats Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost , concentrating on vacant cultural spaces and abandoned icons to trace the gap between sacred and secular life, between poetry and belief. The second part focuses on Shakespeare's Hamlet and Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam to investigate the eschatological implications of this gap, the ways that history is disentangled from memory and nostalgia severed from experience. The book challenges readings of Renaissance culture as an increasingly secular one, proposing that sacred symbols and practices still powerfully organized the English moral imagination, oriented behaviors and arranged perceptions, and specified the limits of the known world.

John Bunyan and English nonconformity
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ISBN: 1472598946 1282024590 9786612024597 0826420435 9780826420435 9781472598943 1852850728 9781852850722 9781282024595 6612024593 Year: 1992 Publisher: London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press,

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"This volume is a comprehensive collection of articles on Bunyan as well as including several broader views of the Nonconformist tradition."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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