Literature of the Arminian Controversy - Religion, Politics and the Stage in the Dutch Republic

Zusatztext ... probably is the best account of the Arminian controversy in the English language to date. For that feat, Sierhuis should be congratulated. Informationen zum Autor Freya Sierhuis was trained at the University of Amsterdam and the University Cambridge and obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. She held an Exzellenzinitiative Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and currently works at the University of York. She specializes in literary culture and intellectual history of England and the Dutch Republic in the 16th and 17th century. Her current project is a monograph study of the Elizabethan poet and statesman Sir Fulke Greville. Together with Brian Cummings, she is editing the philosophical treaties for the forthcoming Clarendon edition of the Complete Works of Fulke Greville. Klappentext The Literature of the Arminian Controversy highlights the importance of the Arminian Controversy (1609-1619) for the understanding of the literary and intellectual culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Zusammenfassung The Literature of the Arminian Controversy highlights the importance of the Arminian Controversy (1609-1619) for the understanding of the literary and intellectual culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Church at the Crossroads. The Reformed in the Dutch Republic 2: Poets, Playwrights, and Pamphleteers during the Arminian Controversy 3: Poets on the Offensive: Coster's Academy and the Staging of Iphigenia 4: The Spectre of Civil War. Literary Reactions to the Death of Oldenbarnevelt 5: Victim Tragedy and Vengeance. Vondel's Palamedes 6: The Academy and the Arminian Controversy in the first years of Frederik Henrdrik's Stadtholderate Conclusion Bibliography

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• Authors: Dr Freya Sierhuis, Freya Sierhuis, Freya (Anniversary Research Lecturer Sierhuis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198749738
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874973-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Netherlands, Dutch, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches