...-Reformation plowman has long been read as an uncomplicated spokesman for an anticlerical Protestantism. This article argues, in contrast, that these plowmen are evidence of a continuing interest in a medieval Catholic symbolic imagination centered on work–as physical labor and as spiritual labor, such as good...

... Ávila, The Flaming Hart, sig. *5r. 32 See Edmund Bedingfield, The Life of Margaret Mostyn (London, 1878), 19. 33 See Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 97 256; and Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford...

..., psychological, and phenomenological realignments. See Huston Diehl, Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1997); Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University...

... possession, all of which were expressed in similar ways. Nuns also used suicide threats instrumentally to further their claims as spiritual aspirants singled out by the devil. Enlarging the scope of inquiry beyond Protestant Europe, the essay demonstrates the constitutive role Catholic nuns played...

... discarded the numerous saints of the Catholic faith, Protestantism naturally threw extra weight onto that remaining figure who was able to mediate, in a specially human way, between God the Father and humanity. Part of this mediatory quality was, of course, Christ’s human status. While 152...

... of Babylon and her followers to overcome Titania and her Fairy Land accentuate the militant Protestant position that England was God s chosen nation to lead the world away from spiritual deception. This fusion of national and international Protestantism becomes especially central to the play s revival...

..., Ryrie, Being Protestant, – at See also Helen White, The Tudor Books of Private Devotion (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed...

... distance from the Catholic university at Louvain as well as from the seminaries at Douai, Rheims, and St. Omer — and with it an Edenic place that facilitates spiritual reconcilia- tion between Catholics and Protestants.5 Shakespeare’s Arden and its borderlands do indeed present spatial...

... on Christ crucified, might “looke inwardly with a spirituall eye into spirituall thynges.” Such Passiontide literature presents ideal terrain for analyzing how Protestant writers constructed this journey from the outward and material to the inward and spiritual, not least because the exegetical issues...

...-Protestant Eucharistic controversy embody some of his deepest theological convictions and represent a full-scale consideration of the rela- tionship of the external, the material, and the bodily to the spiritual. Strier / Luther and the Real Presence in Nature  279 II...

... complex. Donne was raised a Catholic after being born into a notorious recusant family. He traveled to Spain in 1596 – 97 ostensibly as a soldier of fortune, but probably in the guise of a Catholic refugee. He later converted publicly to Protestantism and was even ordained as an Anglican minister...

...]: 25). 29 Patrick Collinson, “The Reformer and the Archbishop: Martin Bucer and an English Bucerian,” chap. 2 in Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism (London: Hambledon Press, 1983), 42. 30 Prominent examples to which...

..., which was without all devotion and understand- ing.”30 “Bibble-­babble,” Latimer calls it, while the homilist dismisses it as “lippe labor,” the empty mouthings of the monks. Through such declara- tions, early Protestantism produces a tumultuous discourse about prayer and a wholesale attempt...

... and the Development of Protestant Exegesis in the Early Seventeenth Century,” in After Calvin , 173–74. 65 Raymond Blacketer, “Henry Ainsworth, Harried Hebraist (1570–1622),” in Biblical Interpretation and Doctrinal Formulation in the Reformed Tradition , ed. Ari C. Leder and Richard A. Muller (Grand Rapids...

... and justly credited as the chief source of the early modern vogue of medita- tion. A scandal for Protestants and even, as we shall see later, for some Cath- olics in the period, the Spiritual Exercises couldn’t be more different from Boyle’s Occasional Reflections. Rather than opening up the possible...

...: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 16 For an examination of the spiritual and textual networks of Reformation Europe, see Nancy Bradley Warren, The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Ortho- doxies, and English...

... malleable during the sixteenth century, as Catholic Counter-Reformation writers such as Johann Eck levied it against major Protestant movements, while such Protestant figures as Zwingli found it useful to separate his brand of Protestantism from more radical strands like the Anabaptists. Concerns...

..., that Il Schifanoya himself did not recognize an assertion of Protestantism as the fixed meaning of the brief event, and that if it was designed to serve as Protestant propaganda, the indoctrination process was not effective—at least, not on the ambas- sador. His tone...

...- nuity in the transition from pre- to post- Reformation. As Andrew Muldoon has noted, the tendency has been to slow down the Reformation: “A Refor- mation that once appeared in awesome, sweeping force, converting England to Protestantism by is now presented as more hesitant, less omnipotent...

... By “revision- ist Reformation scholarship,” Shuger means a relatively small slice of the vast scholarship on the Reformation.2 She takes aim at that scholarship on the Reformation in Britain, produced in the last twenty or so years, which dissents from the Whig, Protestant-­triumphalist account. To put...