Common Prayer The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England

Name: Common Prayer The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England
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ISBN: 9780226789699

ISBN-10: 0226789691

ISBN-13: 9780226789699

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ramie Targoff

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Common 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…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Author's note on spelling and editions


Introduction: The Performance of Prayer



Common Prayer



Reading Prayer: Spontaneity and Conformity



Prayer and Poetry: Rhyme in the English Church



George Herbert and the Devotional Lyric


Conclusion: The Bay Psalm Book: From Common Prayer to Common Poems


Notes


Index