...James Simpson This essay is a rebuttal to Debora Shuger’s 2008 essay, “The Reformation of Penance,” in which she takes aim at revisionist Reformation scholarship, and in particular at James Simpson’s Reform and Cultural Revolution , published in 2002, as exemplary of the error of the revisionists...

...Debora Shuger The three volumes of Little Gidding Story Books—the first published in 1899, the last in 1970—are based on shorthand transcripts of the informal seminars held on feast days during the early 1630s by members of a quasi-monastic extended family, most of them young women. The discussions...

... in theological thinking across the Reformation divide.8 A recent article by Debora Shuger titled “The Reformation of Penance,” written largely in Knowles / Can You Serve?  529 response to Simpson, sets out to show that the “Reformation neither made virtue...

... then, are we to read texts like Browne’s—and indeed like so many of Donne’s—that figure spirituality in terms that seem to us redo- lently sexual? As Debora Shuger has noted in a similar context, the question itself may be misconceived, “to the extent that medieval sexuality is shaped by the language...

...: The Work of Devotion in Tudor Literature  45 – 68 Picciotto, Joanna Devotion and Intellectual Labor  1 – 15 Shuger, Debora Laudian Feminism and the Household Republic of Little Gidding  69 – 94 672  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.3 / 2014 Sokolov, Danila Ane Detectioun...

... in the Sixteenth Century  421 – 459 Simpson, James The Reformation of Scholarship: A Reply to Debora Shuger  249 – 268 Walker, Claire Crumbs of News: Early Modern English Nuns and Royalist Intelligence Networks  635 – 655 Warren, Nancy Bradley Monasticisms Medieval and Early Modern  511 – 517...

... Calvinists worshipped (I.18, 103–4). In the seventeenth century, such Calvinist ideology was not restricted to the scholastic idiom and cool prose of Wollebius. Debora Shuger has shown that it was also preached from the pulpit with as much rhetorical fervor as cultural significance. Here it is worth...

... to reimagine the relations of devotion, labor, and authorship — is extended in all directions in the early modern period, often under the very sign of experiment. From the rise of so-­called “experimental religion” to what Debora Shuger calls the “spiritual empiricism” of the Little Gidding group...

... the seeds of disease through the introduction of antagonistic alchemy.6 For Donne, the home- opathic paradoxes of the cross prescribe terrestrial tribulation as a cure for spiritual disease. Debora Shuger has recently argued that “Christ’s agony provides the primary symbol for early modern...

...” for Lear's ethical awakening. 29 Debora Shuger, in a study attentive to a longer arc of Christian tradition, suggests that Lear's compassionate awakening on the heath is not (as some would like it to be) evidence of a redistributive radicalism or nascent heterodoxy, but rather a recovery of the “social...

... the thirteenth and seven- teenth centuries—a period he is tempted to call “the Age of the Mirror”— the mirror metaphor shifted. Once a figure of divine ideality, the mirror became a metaphor for human consciousness and originality.11 Deborah Shuger, however, resists the tacit link between the inven...

... like in Donne’s writings on martyrdom? This question has generally not been asked before because the major- ity of writing on Donne and martyrdom, from critics as different as Deborah Lerner / Donne’s Annihilation  419 Shuger and Annabel...

... disconnect between arguments and facts. The study of literary cases of diplomatic parrhesia emulates the Sid- neyan method of fictional distancing, as defined by Debora Shuger. Sid- ney s conceptualizing poetry as fiction . . . exempts it from most forms of early modern censorship and acts as a form...

...,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 26 (1975): 149 – 72. On parliamentary debates about Mosaic law, see Debora Kuller Shuger, Political Theologies in Shakespeare’s England: The Sacred and the State in “Measure for Measure” (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 30 – 31. For further discussion...

... no fixed relevance to one another. In this way, Cranmer’s lectionary seems prophetic of the respublica litterarum’s biblical scholarship. As Debora Shuger demonstrates, this form of exegesis, which arose in the 1580s, “presupposed the fundamental alteriority of the [bibli- cal] past” and was based...

.... Marshall Grossman (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998), 29 – 48, at 39. 11 Debora Shuger ascribes the general lack of Calvinist poetry treating the Passion to the problematic status of Christ’s suffering in Protestant conceptions of the atone- ment; The Renaissance Bible...

... University Press, 1977–98), 2:257. See also Debra Shuger’s comments on this passage in her essay, Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community, ed. Arthur Stephen McGrade (Tempe, Ariz.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997), 257. Both Shakespeare, accord- ing...

... for readers of Paradise Lost Raphael’s reminding Adam of the importance of “self-­esteem” (8.571  –  73), a term that Milton pioneered. 20 Richard Strier, “Milton against Humility,” in Religion and Culture in Renaissance England, ed. Claire McEachern and Debora Shuger (Cambridge: Cambridge...

... Archaeological Society, 1959), 89. 16 On Little Gidding, see Debora Shuger, “Laudian Feminism and the Household Republic of Little Gidding,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44, no. 1 (2014): 69 – 94. 17 See Diary of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray and Henry B. Wheatley, vol. 3 (Lon...

... and Debora K. Shuger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 46 – 68; Steven N. Zwicker, “Reading the Mar- gins: Politics and the Habits of Appropriation,” in Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution, ed. Kevin Sharpe...