The Book of Books : : Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton / / Thomas Fulton.
Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the Renaissance Bible, Desiderius Erasmus and William Tyn...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 30 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A note on texts
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Erasmus’s New Testament and the Politics of Historicism
- Chapter 2 Tyndale’s Literalism and the Laws of Moses
- Chapter 3 A New Josiah and Bucer’s Theocratic Utopia
- Chapter 4 The Word in Exile The Geneva Bible and Its Readers
- Chapter 5 Battling Bibles and Spenser’s Dragon
- Chapter 6 Measure for Measure and the New King
- Chapter 7 Milton’s Bible and Revolutionary Psalm Culture
- Chapter 8 Milton Contra Tyndale
- Coda Legitimating Power
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Biblical Index
- General Index
- Acknowledgments