Witnessing to the faith: Absolutism and the conscience in John Donne’s England (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)

By: Shanyn Altman

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Synopsis: This study utilises John Donne’s works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.Altman examines Donne’s polemic in line with the vast expanse of literature relating to the pamphlet war and situates Donne’s arguments within a strong contemporary tradition of conformist thought. Within this context, the study argues that Donne articulated a theory of royal absolutism that would have struck home with many contemporaries who, whether Catholic or not, were faced with a regime determined to bring them into conformity. It further contends that the religio-political standpoint represented by Donne was not only fairly obvious to the English state but was also widely accepted by it.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781526154859
Related ISBNs:: 9781526154866, 9781526154842
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/01/24
Copyrighted By:: Shanyn Altman
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts, Politics and Government
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