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...Polly Ha Puritan and conformist divines both sought to “own the Hebrew doctors” just as they had appealed to patristic sources in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The puritan Walter Travers drew upon the rabbinic commentary of Abraham Ibn Ezra to argue for the refashioning...

...Constance Furey This essay seeks to understand the assumptions about marriage bequeathed to us by early modern Protestants by exploring the Puritan interest in mandated affection. For Puritans, obligatory love was the foundation for the covenant between believers and God and the reason why...

... a Puritanism, (Monarchical) Republicanism, and Monarchy; or John Whitgift, Antipuritanism, and the “Invention” of Popularity Peter Lake Vanderbilt University...

..., carnivalesque utopia. Mock-romance becomes an acceptable mode of fantasy for the defeated royalist, including erotic encounters offered as a culturally rebellious, defiantly anti-Puritan activity. Gayton's playfulness is, in its own terms, consistent with the cultural interplay of Spanish and English terms...

..., the Painters, and the city of Chester. In staging intergenerational masculine fellowship on several levels, the performance may also have spoken back against the Puritan view that Chester’s “popish” cycle had been extirpated. Chester Corpus Christi plays Shepherds pageant patronage of Henry Stanley Earl...

...)—that is, the presbyterian Puritans—mis- take discipline for an essential mark of the church, while those who “main- taineth the present government of the church” (12)—the Conformist bishops—abuse the power of excommunication.35 Accordingly, Bacon crit- icizes both parties...

... at a confer- ence at Hampton Court — now frequented by the King’s Men — that the Geneva Bible should be replaced with what would become the Authorized King James Version.19 There are many accounts of this event from perspec- tives that usually bear an obvious bias toward either the puritans...

... but speak of it to others.” Susanna's autobiographical memoirs described her puritan upbringing, marriage, and the births and deaths of several children, together with her emigration to Massachusetts, her husband's return to war-torn England, and her own reverse journey across the Atlantic to rejoin him...

... of the value of works before God, see Marilynne Robinson, “Which Way to the City on a Hill?,” New York Review of Books , July 18, 2019, 43–46, from the higher journalism, a very pure example of the Whig tradition, wholly innocent of Puritan exclusivism and much else; David D. Hall, The Puritans...

... to this special issue, “Who Owns the Hebrew Doctors? Oriental Scholarship, Historical Proportionality, and the Puritan ‘Invention’ of Avant-Garde Conformity,” fills a gap in the existing literature by exploring how both nonconformist and conformist divines tapped into the historical dynamism of medieval works...

... of Christ as model of dependence on grace. Milton’s heroic virtue is clearly not that which Raymond of Capua seeks to demonstrate in Catherine of Siena. The issue concludes with Constance Furey’s “Relational Virtue: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Puritan Marriage,” which takes us...

... remarkably sympathetic to Remonstrant objections to Calvinism. 29 In 1619 he split time as a preacher to the Puritan-leaning legal congregation at Lincoln's Inn and as chaplain to the king. In 1622 he was pressed into service at Paul's Cross by James I to rebuke Puritan railing against the king's pro...

... predicts the organizing contrasts of the historiography of seventeenth-­century England, between a vision of the church as a sacramental space and the church as a mere preaching house — or, to use Puritan binaries, superstitious idola- try and true religion, one relying on the merely implicit faith...

... of the land, it may well have been that Grindletonian Antinomianism or perfectionism was one of its targets.18 And one can also imagine the Puritan divine from Skipton who angrily annotated his copy of Spenser’s Faerie Queene because it remained tainted with superstition might well have had in mind...

... and English, empha- sized the Sabbath timing of biblical revelations speaks to its importance as a marker of true revelation Puritan writers like Arthur Dent and Thomas Cartwright developed general rules of practice for their readers’ devotional lives, based on the day that revelations typically occur...

... pp. Hardcover. Ha, Polly, Jonathan D. Moore, and Edda Frankot, eds. Reformed Government: Puritanism, Historical Contingency, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Late Elizabethan England . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Griesel, Jake. Retaining the Old Episcopal...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:3, Fall 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-­1720661  © 2012 by Duke University Press Fallon, Stephen M. Milton and Literary Virtue  181 – 200 Furey, Constance Relational Virtue: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Puritan Marriage  201 – 224 Hallett, Nicky...

..., a growing Puritan contingent became skeptical of the composition of poetry, even of verse with a religious bent. 62 In this environment, clerical verse came to be associated with the opposing tendency, the courtly, conservative, and aestheticized form of churchmanship that Peter Lake has termed “avant...

... Puritans and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Interregnum Monmouth,” Welsh History Review 22, no. 4 (2005): 646–72, at 648–50. 10 Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London’s Overseas Traders, 1550–1652 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press...

... and More to the politics of Puritanism and its adversaries in Elizabeth's reign; from versions of “work” in Catholicism, Protestantism, and the Piers Plowman tradition to the theology of “service” in Luther and Langland; and mortalism from Luther to Milton. Over ten years after this issue...