Search Results for philological and theological scholarship

.... They illustrate how English Protestant scholarship reinforced stereotypes, while also prompting self-reflection and inspiring the reconstruction of England's own traditions and cultural assumptions. Expanding English ecclesiastical, theological, exegetical, philological, and cultural interests, the volume calls...

...- toriographic awareness and theoretical sophistication. Apologetics are absent; philology is a method and not an objective. The authors all treat religious practices—whether intellectual or material—within a broad social frame- work. The essays in this volume present us with a set of exemplary models...

... internal debates over the Church of England's ecclesiastical polity began to push beyond the Latinate world and draw from postbiblical oriental sources. The uses of rabbinic scholarship were many and varied, ranging from philological and exegetical to historical and cultural. One approach toward...

... it are vanish'd into Smoke”; notwithstanding the few critical comments on Cappel's conjectures cited above, Pococke strongly resisted being drawn into theological controversy. 79 However, Pococke was not a “pure” philological exegete. His scholarship was deeply enmeshed with theological preoccupations...

... over further reformation in England. Indeed, we might even view the Westminster Assembly as an exercise of the “confessionalized erudition” which historians of scholarship have argued was at the core of early modern intellectual culture, in which even the slightest questions of history and philology...

... of philology, theology, and philosophy, which Valla himself did not, in practice, separate discretely. His Annotations to the New Testament presents a case in point. As a collection of critical notes on the standard Latin translation of the New Testament (the Vulgate), the annotations themselves range from...

.... As Bois's annotations indicate, translators' decisions were shaped by questions that scholars throughout post-Reformation Europe were asking about the Bible's cultural context, composition, and transmission. These technical questions all had important theological implications, which scholars of biblical...

... established Church of England”; Parker’s publication of Anglo-­Saxon texts can thus be seen as “part of the battle for the terrain of the early church.”9 Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch have also highlighted the philological character of this enterprise: “Grammatical and lexical studies of Old...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Historiography, historians, and critical theory 3. Formations of empire, nation, and state 4. Philosophical and theological legacies 5. Heresy...

... in Paradise Lost has been a locus of ecocritical theorizing for early modern scholars, Lucy Hutchinson's epic Genesis poem, Order and Disorder: The World Made and Undone (1679), brings a different set of theological and environmental concerns to the Creation, the Fall, and the Flood. 1 Her insistent...

... theological treatises and devotional books commenting on her poem’s subject, the poet modestly characterizes her contribution as hardly worthy of generating any consternation. Although she presents herself as anxious about the undertak- ing, the poet urges her female Muse to complete the task...

... judgment is ultimately inseparable from an eschatological framework. The result is an engaging and often illuminat- ing narrative of historical decline, punctuated by emphatic local instances of strong moral judgment; yet it is oddly inexplicit about the theological and metaphysical sources...

... within elite opinion that momentarily coincided with royal policy, not a mainstream theological and political stance among the English clergy and laity. 27 Reading the Collegiate Suffrage —originally a series of live lectures—in the context of two other public performances from 1619 works against...

... History (1596), and John Moore s Mappe of Mans Mortalities (1617) a varied collection in which biblical text and theological commen- tary mingle with highlights of secular scholarship and imaginative literature. If there is any central organizing principle even to this set, it is not clear: the labeling...

...Philip Booth Riccoldo of Monte Croce (ca. 1243–1320), Dominican friar, missionary, and pilgrim, was an accomplished author, but nature of his written corpus has been disputed by scholarship. For some, he is a noted anti-Islamic polemicist. For others, he is a quasi-tolerant traveler in the East...

... between dramatic traditions once considered aesthetically and formally dis- tinct from and ideologically at odds with each other has been bolstered by discoveries that have vastly altered the landscape of medieval English drama scholarship. Not only has the Chester cycle turned out to be two hundred...

... our lewd brother know / What all the Gospels say, / That falls to the Sundays; / That they may hear and hold in heart / The thing that them to God may lead]. 67 On this bi-directional flow of theological ideas, see Vincent Gillespie, “Vernacular Theology,” in Middle English , ed. Paul Strohm...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Biographical studies 4. Theological and philosophical legacies 5. Law 6. Christian saints and religious professions 7...

... subiugarent.” 21 Hunting scholarship on Gawain tends to start with Henry L. Savage's work: “The Significance of the Hunting Scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 27, no. 1 (1928): 1–15; and “Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ,” PMLA 46...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Biographical studies 4. Medicine and science 5. Race and otherness 6. Jewish studies 7. Crusading 8. Theological...