Spenserian allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis : a context for 'The Faerie Queene' /: a context for 'The Faerie Queene'. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret Christian.
• Authors: Christian, Margaret
• Editors: Lethbridge, J. B
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction: a context for The Faerie Queene ; Part I Backgrounds: allegorical reading in Spenser's England; 1 Traditional scriptural interpretation and sixteenth-century allegoresis: old and new; Biblical models for allegorical exegesis; Traditional interpretations of the parable of the sower; Traditional interpretations of Jesus's visit to Martha and Mary; Statements about and categories of biblical exegesis; Sixteenth-century English exegetical theory and practice: Tyndale Sixteenth-century English exegetical theory and practice: 1560 Geneva Bible annotationsConclusion; 2 Allegorical reading in occasional Elizabethan liturgies; Praying through the plague; Liturgies for military crises: Turkish invasions; A prayer during severe weather; Liturgy after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day; Liturgies for acts of God: the London earthquake; Liturgies for military crises: the anticipated Spanish invasion; Liturgies for plots; Queen's Day liturgies; Conclusion; 3 Allegorical reading in sermon references to history and current events; Secular history in sermons The Bible and recent English historyReading and misreading contemporary history: Essex's rebellion; Typology in theory and practice: an Accession Day sermon; Part II The preachers' Bible and Spenser's Faerie Queene: alternate allegories; 4 "The ground of Storie": genealogy in biblical exegesis and the Legend of Temperance; Elizabethan discussion of biblical genealogies; Elizabeth's family tree in printed sermons; Briton moniments in the context of Elizabethan biblical genealogy; The Faery chronicle in the context of Elizabethan biblical typology 5 "Waues of weary wretchednesse": Florimell and the seaThe sea in religious rhetoric; The seagoing ship and pilot in sermons; Britomart's lament; Sermon tradition: the sea of lust and the ship of married love; Florimell and the sea of lust; Florimell and the ship of married love; 6 Saracens, Assyrians, and Spaniards: allegories of the Armada; The Armada5; Religious discourse and the Armada; Contemporary providentialist views of the Armada's defeat; Hebraic patriotism in reference to the Spanish threat; Hebraic patriotism in contemporary celebrations of English victory Spenserian historical allegory as counterpart to biblical typologyThe Turk in Elizabethan religious polemic; Spenser's Souldan; Spenser's historical allegory as providentialist analysis of history; 7 "a goodly amiable name for mildness": Mercilla and other Elizabethan types; Sermon types of Elizabeth, Mary, and other threats; Mercilla and Duessa as Elizabeth and Mary; The traditional reading and modern objections; Biblical uses of improved history; 8 Court and courtesy: sermon contexts for Spenser's Book VI; Sermon references to courtiers' vices
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 821.3; English poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism; POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526107831; 9781526107848; 1526107848
• Related ISBNs: 152610783X
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