Miller / Unknown / Miller-Blaise Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6408-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 18, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Miller, Greg

Miller-Blaise, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: contentious communion—Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise

Part I Thinking beyond borders: War and peace
1 The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: Experiences of the tragic and historiographic genres in Edward Herbert and George Herbert—Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
2 The Thirty Years’ War and George Herbert’s communion, an answer to violence—Greg Miller
3 “Being” James I: Herbert of Cherbury’s vexed diplomacy—Nancy Zaice
4 Ceremony and self: Belligerent civility in Edward Herbert’s Autobiography—Michael Schoenfeldt

Part II Reconsidering conformity, community and universality
5 “Gerson, a Spirituall Man”: Herbert and the University of Paris’s reformist chancellor— Christopher Hodgkins
6 Conformity and consent in Herbert of Cherbury—Anita Sherman
7 “Devout Humanism” and its problems: George Herbert and François de Sales—Richard Strier
8 George Herbert’s The Country Parson and John Calvin’s pastoral advice—Kristine A. Wolberg and Lynnette St. George
9 Edward Herbert’s The Amazon and De Veritate—Cristina Malcolmson

Part III Voices of transnational communities: From conversation to song
10 Edward Herbert within the fellowship of gentlemen plain speakers—Sean H. McDowell
11 “The little World the Great shall blaze”: Edward Herbert, Thomas Carew, Giambattista Marino, and the poetics of embassy—Eleanor Hardy
12 George Herbert and three French Protestant poets (Chandieu, Grévin, Sponde)—Guillaume Coatalen
13 Becoming “a Citizen of the world”: Edward Herbert and continental music-making— Simon Jackson
14 “Sweet Singers of our Israel”: French psalmody, the Sidneys and George Herbert—Helen Wilcox

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France