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Paganism in literature. --- Christian heresies in literature. --- Christian heretics --- Religion and literature --- English literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- History. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life

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It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton - who opposed infant baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of polygamy - should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical opinions. This volume investigates aspects of Milton's works inconsistent with conventional beliefs, whether in terms of seventeenth-century theology or the common assumptions of Milton scholars. Contributors situate Milton and his writings within his specific historical circumstances, paying special attention to Milton's pragmatic position within seventeenth-century religious controversy. The volume's four sections deal with heretical theology, heresy's consequences, heresy and community, and readers of heresy; their common premise is that Milton, as poet, thinker and public servant, eschewed set beliefs and regarded indeterminacy and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence. Winner of the 1999 Milton Society of America Irene Samuel Memorial Award.

Christian heresies in literature. --- Christian heresies --- Christian literature, English --- Heresies, Christian --- Heresies, Christian, in literature. --- Heresy in literature. --- Theology --- History --- History and criticism. --- History --- History --- Milton, John, --- Religion. --- England --- Church history

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This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume should be of interest to all literary, religious and political historians working on early modern English culture.

Christian heresies --- Christian heresies in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- Christianity and politics --- Christianity --- Church and politics --- Politics and Christianity --- Politics and the church --- Political science --- Heresies, Christian, in literature --- Heresies, Christian --- Heresies and heretics --- Heresy --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Christian sects --- History --- Political aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton - who opposed infant baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of polygamy - should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical opinions. This volume investigates aspects of Milton's works inconsistent with conventional beliefs, whether in terms of seventeenth-century theology or the common assumptions of Milton scholars. Contributors situate Milton and his writings within his specific historical circumstances, paying special attention to Milton's pragmatic position within seventeenth-century religious controversy. The volume's four sections deal with heretical theology, heresy's consequences, heresy and community, and readers of heresy; their common premise is that Milton, as poet, thinker and public servant, eschewed set beliefs and regarded indeterminacy and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.

Christian literature, English --- Christian heresies --- Christian heresies in literature. --- Theology --- Heresy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Milton, John, --- Religion. --- England --- Church history --- Heresies, Christian, in literature --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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After the late fourteenth century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism out of fear of censorship or partisan distaste, viewed Wycliffite ideas as a distinctly new intellectual resource. Andrew Cole offers a complete historical account of the first official condemnation of Wycliffism - the Blackfriars council of 1382 - and the fullest study of 'lollardy' as a social and literary construct. Drawing on literary criticism, history, theology and law, he presents not only a fresh perspective on late medieval literature, but also an invaluable rethinking of the Wycliffite heresy. Literature and Heresy restores Wycliffism to its proper place as the most significant context for late medieval English writing, and thus for the origins of English literary history.

Thematology --- Old English literature --- English literature --- Christian heresies in literature. --- Lollards in literature. --- Theology in literature. --- Canon (Literature) --- Literature and society --- Littérature anglaise --- Hérésies chrétiennes dans la littérature --- Lollards dans la littérature --- Théologie dans la littérature --- Chefs-d'Oeuvre (Littérature) --- Littérature et société --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Wycliffe, John, --- Influence. --- Littérature anglaise --- Hérésies chrétiennes dans la littérature --- Lollards dans la littérature --- Théologie dans la littérature --- Chefs-d'Oeuvre (Littérature) --- Littérature et société --- Heresies, Christian, in literature --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Vicliffe, John, --- Viklef, Jan, --- Viklef, John, --- Viklif, Jan, --- Wickliffe, John, --- Wiclif, Johann von, --- Wiclif, John, --- Wicliffe, John, --- Wyclif, John, --- Wyclyf, John, --- Wykliffe, Johannes von, --- Arts and Humanities