Pseudo-martyr
Title | Pseudo-martyr PDF eBook |
Author | John Donne |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Catholics |
ISBN | 9780773509948 |
Pseudo-Martyr was Donne's first published work and the only one he wrote as a lawyer. It is also an autobiographical document which reveals how Donne resolved his own lapse from Catholicism so that he could remain loyal to the king. A descendant of Thomas More's sister, Donne had inherited a rich tradition from the Counter-Reformation, which he sought to reconcile with the political absolutes of his day. Anthony Raspa provides a definitive critical edition of this long-neglected work, setting it in its historical context and making the forest of quotations and references given by Donne in the main body of the text and its margins intelligible to the modern reader.
Pseudo-martyr
Title | Pseudo-martyr PDF eBook |
Author | John Donne |
Publisher | Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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John Donne published Pseudo-Martyr in 1610, at a moment of extreme political tension between London and Rome. It was an attempt to convince English Roman Catholics that they could remain loyal to the spiritual authority of Rome and still take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown and avoid persecution. Donne, brought up as a Catholic and trained as a lawyer, argued his case by appealing to precedents from the body of canon and civil law in existence since the beginning of Christian civilization. Pseudo-Martyr is thus a vast survey of relations between church and state from the days of the early church to 1600. Donne also drew detailed historical parallels between crises in medieval and contemporary times and the particular dilemma of Catholics in England to prove that a compromise of loyalties was possible and acceptable.
Pseudo-Martyr
Title | Pseudo-Martyr PDF eBook |
Author | John Donne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1610 |
Genre | Anti-Catholicism |
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Pseudo-martyr
Title | Pseudo-martyr PDF eBook |
Author | Donne John |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780259716006 |
Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England
Title | Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Lota Brown |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004101579 |
This work argues that casuistry provided an important resource for Donne and others caught in the welter of conflicting laws and religions in post-Reformation Europe. Focussing on Donne's works, the book also examines the political, historical, and theological discourses in which Donne's view of authority and interpretation took shape.
Pseudo-Martyr
Title | Pseudo-Martyr PDF eBook |
Author | John Donne |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2016-09-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781333606855 |
Excerpt from Pseudo-Martyr: Wherein Out of Certaine Propositions, This Conclusion Is Evicted, That Those Which Are of the Romane Religion May and Ought to Take the Oath of Allegiance And'in hisjpolocgieq his ownewritincgs again ' the refl'epoieg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Witnessing to the faith
Title | Witnessing to the faith PDF eBook |
Author | Shanyn Altman |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2023-07-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526154854 |
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.