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Common Prayer: The Language Of Public Devotion In Early Modern England
by Ramie TargoffCommon Prayer explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. Ramie Targoff challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized world of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism. Early modern England, she demonstrates, was characterized less by the triumph of religious interiority than by efforts to shape public forms of devotion. This provocatively revisionist argument will have major implications for early modern studies. Through readings of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry and his translations of the Psalms, John Donne's sermons and poems, and George Herbert's The Temple, Targoff uncovers the period's pervasive and often surprising interest in cultivating public and formalized models of worship. At the heart of this study lies an original and daring approach to understanding the origins of devotional poetry; Targoff shows how the projects of composing eloquent verse and improving liturgical worship come to be deeply intertwined. New literary practices, then, became a powerful means of forging common prayer, or controlling private and otherwise unmanageable expressions of faith.
Critical Models: Interventions And Catchwords (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)
by Theodor W. Adorno Henry W. PickfordTwo volumes by Theodor W. Adorno are combined in this volume: "Interventions - Nine Critical Models" (1963) and "Catchwords: Critical Model II" (1969). Both books are examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism.
Isis Lactans: Corpus Des Monuments Gréco-romains D'isis Allaitant Harpocrate (Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans L'empire Romain Ser. #37)
by V. Tran tam Tinh
Women And Religion In Medieval England
by Diana WoodPapers based on contributions to a conference held by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education at Rewley House, 16-18 February 2001.