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Political Theologies in Shakespeare's England offers a defining reinterpretation of English political thought in the aftermath of the Reformation. Debora Kuller Shuger focuses not on the tension between Crown and Parliament but on the relation of the sacred to the state. The book examines Measure for Measure, for the issues at the heart of this play also shape the deep structure of English politics in the aftermath of the Reformation.
Censorship and Cultural Sensibility The Regulation of Language in
Tudor-Stuart England Debora Shuger "May be the year's most erudite
book. . . . A major scholarly achievement, since it bears on the
work so many now do."--"Studies in English Literature"
"Scrupulously researched, carefully written, argued, and developed,
this is one of those books for which it is hard to imagine a mortal
author."--Patrick Cheney, "Studies in English Literature" "This is
a major work. Shuger deals with the rules of appropriate language
use in early modern Europe, making an argument about censorship in
sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England that is original,
surprising, and, in her thorough presentation, entirely
plausible."--Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia "This
magisterial work should be considered a basic text of analysts for
Tudor-Stuart linguists, historians, and legal scholars."--"History:
Review of New Books" "An extremely impressive book, brimming with
ideas and erudition, and putting forward an innovative and
challenging interpretation which should be of great interest to
lawyers as well as literary and social historians."--"Journal of
Law and Society" In this study of the reciprocities binding
religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a
profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that
bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of
ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political
opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the
terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of
why no one prior to the mid-1640s argued for free speech or a free
press per se, "Censorship and Cultural Sensibility" surveys the
texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns,
which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels,
conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws
that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that
underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different
framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship
illegitimate. Virtually all substantive law on language concerned
defamation, regulating what one could say about other people. Hence
Tudor-Stuart laws extended protection only to the person hurt by
another's words, never to their speaker. In treating transgressive
language as akin to battery, English law differed fundamentally
from papal censorship, which construed its target as heresy. There
were thus two models of censorship operative in the early modern
period, both premised on religious norms, but one concerned
primarily with false accusation and libel, the other with false
belief and immorality. Shuger investigates the first of these
models--the dominant English one--tracing its complex origins in
the Roman law of "iniuria" through medieval theological ethics and
Continental jurisprudence to its continuities and discontinuities
with current U.S. law. In so doing, she enables her reader to grasp
how in certain contexts censorship could be understood as
safeguarding both charitable community and personal dignitary
rights. Debora Shuger is Professor of English at the University of
California, Los Angeles. She is the author of "Political Theologies
in Shakespeare's England" and other books. 2006 360 pages 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-8122-3917-1 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0334-9
Ebook $59.95s 39.00 World Rights History Short copy: "This is a
major work. Shuger deals with the rules of appropriate language use
in early modern Europe, making an argument about censorship in
sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England that is original,
surprising, and, in her thorough presentation, entirely
plausible."--Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia
Religion in Tudor England offers readers the prose and the poetry,
the theology and the spirituality, the prayers and the polemics, of
one of the most important epochs in the making of modern
Christianity. Beginning with King Henry VII, the Tudors' reign
included the break with Rome and the rise of English Protestantism,
a series of religiously inspired revolts, the burnings of nearly
three hundred Protestants for heresy under Queen Mary, the
executions of scores of Catholics for treason under Queen
Elizabeth, and the emergence of the Puritan challenge to the Church
of England. Moreover, the English Reformation coincided with the
English Renaissance, and the foremost religious thinkers of the
age, Catholic as well as Protestant, are also among the greatest of
English prose stylists. The sources in this unique anthology,
accidentals modernized and accompanied by careful notes and
detailed historical, literary, and theological introductions,
immerse readers in this world and allow them to explore
comprehensively - for the first time - what was lost, what was
transformed, and what was preserved in the English Reformation.
Essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social, and literary forms from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Individual essays discuss the relationship between religion and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature, including work by Foxe, Hooker, Shakespeare, Donne, Lanyer, and Milton. The collection demonstrates the massive centrality of religion to early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity, and nationhood.
This collection of primary sources from Early Stuart England,
compiled by the acclaimed Deborah Shuger, reflects the varieties of
religious expression, theological conviction, and spiritual
experience of the fascinating and turbulent period in English
religious history from 1603-1638. With selections ranging from
sermons, devotional bestsellers, and sacred lyrics to
ecclesio-political satires and doctrinal controversies, Religion in
Early Stuart England, 1603-1638 offers scholars and students key
primary sources that will stimulate research and discussion.
First published in 1998 by the University of California Press, The
Renaissance Bible skillfully navigates the immense but neglected
materials spanning the gap between medieval biblical scholarship
and the rise of Higher Criticism. Debora Kuller Shuger powerfully
demonstrates the disciplinary fusion of Renaissance biblical
scholarship-in which the Bible remained the primary locus for
cultural, anthropological, and psychological reflection-against
modern historians' penchant for bracketing all things religious
when reimagining the Renaissance world. Despite the considerable
ground she covers and the interdisciplinary nature of her subject,
Shuger never roves. Her penetrating focus casts remarkable light on
her subject, especially Renaissance writers' use of the Passion.
Their concerns emerge as surprisingly contemporary, inviting the
reader to reflect on such relevant topics as selfhood, violence,
and gender.
First published in 1998 by the University of California Press, The
Renaissance Bible skillfully navigates the immense but neglected
materials spanning the gap between medieval biblical scholarship
and the rise of Higher Criticism. Debora Kuller Shuger powerfully
demonstrates the disciplinary fusion of Renaissance biblical
scholarship - in which the Bible remained the primary locus for
cultural, anthropological, and psychological reflection - against
modern historians' penchant for bracketing all things religious
when reimagining the Renaissance world. Despite the considerable
ground she covers and the interdisciplinary nature of her subject,
Shuger never roves. Her penetrating focus casts remarkable light on
her subject, especially Renaissance writers' use of the Passion.
Their concerns emerge as surprisingly contemporary, inviting the
reader to reflect on such relevant topics as selfhood, violence,
and gender.
These essays by leading historians and literary scholars
investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and
literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern
religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and
rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies,
individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if
tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and
explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English
Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and
Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the
poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection
demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern
constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.
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