Witnessing to the faith
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Witnessing to the faith

Absolutism and the conscience in John Donne's England

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Witnessing to the faith

Absolutism and the conscience in John Donne's England

About this book

This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.Altman examines Donne's polemic in line with the vast expanse of literature relating to the pamphlet war and situates Donne's arguments within a strong contemporary tradition of conformist thought. Within this context, the study argues that Donne articulated a theory of royal absolutism that would have struck home with many contemporaries who, whether Catholic or not, were faced with a regime determined to bring them into conformity. It further contends that the religio-political standpoint represented by Donne was not only fairly obvious to the English state but was also widely accepted by it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Note on sources
  10. Introduction: Situating John Donne within post-Reformation studies
  11. 1 Absolutism and the moderation of religion
  12. 2 Resistance theory, tyrannicide and the trope of the ā€˜Evil Jesuit’
  13. 3 Volunteerism and self-sovereignty in discourses on martyrdom
  14. Conclusion: John Donne studies and the ā€œRevisionistā€ paradigm
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index