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Donne and the politics of conscience in early modern England

Title: Donne and the politics of conscience in early modern England / by Meg Lota Brown.
Author: Brown, Meg Lota.
Publication: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995.

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Description

159 pages; 25 cm

Series Statement

Studies in the history of Christian thought, 0081-8607 ; v. 61

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of Christian thought ; v. 61.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-153) and indexes.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- I Introduction: "Nothing without perplexities" (starting p. 1) -- "Who but a monomaniac ...?": Reading Donne and Casuistry (starting p. 4) -- "An affliction which defeats all Magistracy": Donne's Politics and His Readers (starting p. 11) -- "Embassadours of Reconciliation": Motives and Narrative Practices of Casuistry (starting p. 20) -- Cases in Point: Hall and Azpilcueta on Homicide (starting p. 26) -- II The Politics of Conscience: Contexts and Controversies (starting p. 35) -- Paper Wars and the Diplomacy of Conscience: Reception of Renaissance Casuistry (starting p. 35) -- Antecedents and Antinomies (starting p. 42) -- Protestant versus Catholic Casuistry: Authority and Interpretation (starting p. 50) -- Donne on Reason and Faith (starting p. 61) -- III Case Divinity and the Argument of Donne's Prose (starting p. 66) -- The Wars of Truth (starting p. 67) -- Biathanatos: Moral Relativism and Moral Authority (starting p. 76) -- Power and Judgment in Pseudo-Martyr (starting p. 83) -- The Politics of Casuistry in the Sermon on Esther (starting p. 91) -- IV "In that the world's contracted thus": Casuistry and Beyond in the Songs and Sonets (starting p. 99) -- "So incorporated into the body of the world": The Lover's Constructed Self (starting p. 102) -- "The sustentation of the whole": Position and Opposition in The Canonization" (starting p. 120) -- "The uncertainty of Humane affairs": "A Valediction forbidding mourning" (starting p. 128) -- Conclusion (starting p. 139) -- A Selected Bibliography (starting p. 144) -- An Index of Names and Places (starting p. 154) -- An Index of Subjects (starting p. 158)

ISBN

9004101578
9789004101579

LCCN

94042409

OCLC

ocm31434011
31434011
SCSB-14680144

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library