.... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Pricking of Love Stephen Batman English Reformation theology reception of medieval religious literature book annotation Gathering Good Corn...

...David Aers; Nigel Smith This special issue is devoted to the English Reformations and current historiography. The title intentionally pluralizes the traditionally singular noun Reformation to signify a scope that includes both the early Reformation (through to 1547) and continuing senses...

...Jay Zysk Situating Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus within the contexts of liturgical history and sacramental theology, this essay argues that the Eucharist provided an influential aesthetic resource for English dramatists in the wake of the Reformation. Drawing on Eucharistic theology, liturgical books...

...Kirsten Macfarlane The English Hebraist John Lightfoot has a Janus-faced legacy. On the one hand, he is known among historians of the British Reformation for his participation in the Westminster Assembly (1643 – 52), for which his journal remains a crucial source of evidence. On the other hand...

... fate of the soul was vigorously defended by William Tyndale in his debate with Thomas More.2 Yet mor- talism became a significant feature of the continental “radical Reformation” rather than of the Calvinist theology that shaped later-­sixteenth-­century English Protestantism: Calvin...

...Giles Waller This article traces the dynamic of tragic recognition and conversion through one of the most explicit attempts to consider the central narrative of the Gospels in a tragic mode, Hugo Grotius’s 1608 Christus Patiens (translated into English by George Sandys in 1640). Converting...

... in 1619 Fletcher and Massinger's Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt Synod of Dort English Reformed theology international politics In May 1619, the eyes and ears of Londoners were fixed on news from abroad. With the German electors preparing to crown a new Holy Roman emperor...

... account. To put the mat- ter crudely, this revisionist scholarship presents the English Reformation as more top-­down than bottom-up.3 In fact her target is even more restricted than this revisionist histori- cal scholarship. Shuger does not make this crucial distinction...

...); “Medieval/Renaissance: After Periodization,” ed. Jennifer Summit and David Wallace, JMEMS 37, no. 3 (2007); and “English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative,” ed. David Aers and Nigel Smith, JMEMS 40, no. 3 (2010). 6 See Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional...

... Press, 1998), 53. 37 For crisp accounts of Luther's theology, see E. Gordon Rupp, The Righteousness of God: Luther Studies (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953); and Carl R. Trueman, Salvation and English Reformers, 1525–1556 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 56–72. What Gordon Leff says about...

... to the present volume: James Simpson’s Reform and Cultural Revolution.4 Although that book did not address medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary western histories, it brought together medieval English culture (reformist, pluralistic, decentralized) with the sixteenth- century English...

... Reformation, Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 640 pp., 5 tables. Hardcover, ebook. Yoder, Peter James. Pietism and the Sacraments: The Life and Theology of August Hermann Francke . Pietist, Moravian...

... of the Reformation divide. Diachronicity is difficult. My attempt here, writing as a scholar of Middle English literature, to put Luther’s sixteenth-­century theologi- cal writings into conversation with Langland and Julian of Norwich, is a testament to that difficulty. Despite our disagreements, I...

... conviction in English culture deserves further exploration. Such work will be enriched by the increasingly comprehensive explanations of the way in which Reformation theology represents not one system of belief but many systems. And under the historically thin layer of Protestant controversy lies...

... in the York Corpus Christi Plays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001); James Simpson, The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 2, 1350  –  1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); and the essay col- lection Reading the Medieval in Early Modern...

... is but old Priest writ large,” and more recently by John Bossy that the Holy Spirit is “a difficult guest in any Church.” 68 [email protected] © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Calvinism theology of redemption human virtue Christian love early modern English politics But your...

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...- pretation. We are particularly committed to work that seeks to overcome the polarization between “history” and “theory” in the study of premodern Western culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2009 English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative Volume 40...

... and Tudor Political Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2007). 34 Carl Truman, Luther's Legacy: Salvation and English Reformers, 1525–1556 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994); Carrie Euler, Couriers of the Gospel: England and Zurich, 1531–1558 (Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2006). 35 See Polly Ha...

... claimed to see the English humanist John 278  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.2 / 2007 Colet as Plato redivivus.38 Leland Miles asserts that Colet understood and approved St. Paul’s antidualistic view of man, but concedes that Colet was “unable to resist Plotinus’s Platonic...