The editors (both of the U. of Leiden, the Netherlands) present 12 papers exploring how English literary producers dealt with issues of religious and cultural ambivalence and hybridity in the
century following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559, which re-established the Church of England's independence from Rome and established a new version of the Book of Common Prayer.
The papers have been organized into thematic sections that explore questions of religious cultural and doctrinal identity; theological issues of words and images and explorations of the
word-image polarity in poetry; the religious significance of geographical and spatial location in early modern theater; and the relationship between the living and the dead, particularly
post-Settlement attitudes towards the physical remains of the Catholic past. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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