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Just as no one saw the dissolution of the monasteries coming in 1535, so no one saw the dissolution of the universities coming in 2035. This précis forms the nucleus of a work I hope to launch in the coming year. Your comments are most... more
1. Considers alleged deficiencies of William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale’s Scripture translations. 2. The Geneva Bible claim (in the preface) that William Tyndale neglected Hebraisms is proven false. 3. The Matthew Bible treatment of... more
Anne Askew is renowned as a Protestant martyr from Henrician England. She has been exalted in Reformation hagiography due to both her stern refusal to recant her beliefs and her fearless death on the pyres of Smithfield. However, this... more
İngitere'yi İngiltere yapan kral, anglikan klisesinin kurucusu VIII.Henry ve reformasyonu
This dissertation will argue that the early modern theatre and the early modern church were both concerned with keeping the attention of their audiences, and that one of the ways that dramatic interest in Christopher Marlowe's and William... more
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the symposium, "Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions," held at Mundelein Seminary, IL, Oct 19-21 2017. This is an expanded version of the paper that tries to... more
PART 1: The hope of the faithful, and the grave from which we are dug. The traditional (patristic and early Reformation) doctrine of heaven and hell. PART 2: The “Larger Hope” and lesser grave taught in the 1894 Revised Version. The... more
Protestant and Catholic martyrologies evolved in dialogue; however, they did not articulate a common conception of martyrdom. Viewing Protestant and Catholic martyrologies and notions of martyrdom as essentially similar obscures highly... more
Hot zeal into hot lust is now transformed, Grace into painting, charity into clothes, Faith into false hair, and put off as often. (4.5.59-61) 1
This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals’ vision of a 'godly' commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in Tudor England. Using the clergyman and bestselling author,... more
Il saggio intende dimostrare che, subito dopo la pubblicazione, da parte di Alberico Gentili, dei De iuris interpretibus Dialogi sex (1582) e delle Lectiones et Epistolae (1583-1584) i rapporti fra Jean Hotman e il giurista di San Ginesio... more
The quotation in the title is taken from a 1606 pamphlet – "An essay of the meanes hovv to make our trauailes, into forraine countries, the more profitable and honourable" – and is symptomatic of a sort of anti-Italianate feeling. Though... more
Curated by Dr. Eric J. Johnson, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Ohio State University "Publish or Perish" tells the story of a religious, social, and political revolution that began 500 years ago as a traditional academic... more
“Bottom’s Dream” at the end of act 4 of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has long been recognized as an extended allusion to Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. This passage also develops a complex version of political... more
In the historiography of early modern England ‘democracy’ is conspicuous for its absence. The observation that since back then it did not exist, pre-nineteenth-century criticisms of democracy are not worth exploring has led historians to... more
Cardinal Pole was characterised as a blood thirsty cleric in the first edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, but by the time the second edition was published, he had all but disappeared from the pages. This paper seeks to find out why Foxe... more
Examination into whether Ford portrays a wholly rotten society
The article argues that the soliloquy, ‘To be, or not to be,’ in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is informed by soul-sleeping: the belief that on its separation from the body at death, the soul enters an unconscious state typically described as... more
The rise of the English separatist movement in the late sixteenth century was characterized by a polemical struggle over the applicability of the epithet of “Donatism.” A pejorative slur, the Donatist label was often utilized during the... more
Whilst religion and collective identity have become issues of central concern to international relations scholars, dynastic concerns and national interests still dominate their analyses of early modern international politics. This... more
While John Foxe’s sixteenth century Actes and Monuments (Book of Martyrs) is recognized as a foundational document for an emergent English national identity and a key record of early Protestant subjectivity, I argue that this document of... more
Conflicts between parish clergy and parishioners in late medieval England have been described as acts of both anticlericalism and proclericalism (that is, an attempt to compel clergy into living up to the parishioners’ increasingly high... more
In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust takes the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, back to the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far... more
Condition of English women before, during and after the Reformation Era.
This paper offers an introduction to Platonism as a context for the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). It begins with a broad outline of sixteenth-century Platonism, and then shows how Platonism informs Sir Kenelm Digby's (1603-1655)... more
The plight to derive the cause of the English Reformation has, for centuries, divided historians. Traditionally, its historiography was dominated by Elton and his ‘top-down’ structural theory: the Reformation was an official matter1 and... more
книге освещаются вопросы истории дипломатии и международных отношений, становления национальных государств и развития политической культуры позднего Средневековья и раннего Нового времени. Внимание автора сфокусировано на том, как... more
>Brief background of the puritan dispute with the Reformation CofE, Thomas Cranmer, and William Tyndale over ceremonies and song. >Compares translations and notes from the Psalms in the1537 Matthew Bible and the Geneva Bible. >Shows... more
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam’s (1466-1536) Enchiridion militis Christiani is widely considered to be one of his greatest works after the The Praise of Folly, and Adagia. The Enchiridion was first written in 1502 as a handbook on how to... more
A comparison of the English Reformation in two borderlands of the Tudor dominions.
Using the ideal of church unity as it was promoted in Tudor England, this article re-examines Elizabethan Puritanism by showing how some Elizabethan reformers once claimed as early Puritans stand apart from that movement. Specifically,... more
Mary I, Queen of England for only five of her forty-two years of life, struggled with competing loyalties and oft-questioned legitimacy under both her father, Henry VIII, and brother, Edward VI. This paper examines the struggle of Mary... more
The purpose of this paper is to present a clearer picture of Johann Weyer's conception of possession and exorcism by synthesizing various elements of his De Praestigiis Daemonum, and comparing these elements with Reginald Scot's The... more
A short seminar paper about the contribution of Thomas Cranmer to the English Reformation. This also touches on the ongoing influence resulting in the Common Book of Prayer.
The series Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae traces the English cathedral clergy from the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the later nineteenth century. Cathedral positions were often used either to reward individuals of outstanding merit or to... more
Entre los siglos XV y XVIII, aproximadamente 50.000 personas fueron ejecutadas en Europa tras ser culpadas del crimen de brujería. Entre los actos por los que fueron castigadas se incluían la utilización de magia nociva, el... more
ABSTRACT The Jacobean era's infamous witchcraft trials are recalled after reservoir repairs close to Pendle Hill reveal a buried cottage with bricked‐up cat. Interpretations of the building as the site of Malkin Tower, recorded in court... more