Spiritual architecture and Paradise regained : Milton's literary ecclesiology / by Simpson, Ken 1957-

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Early modern asceticism : literature, religion, and austerity in the English Renaissance / by McGrath, Patrick J., 1984-

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Early modern asceticism : literature, religion, and austerity in the English Renaissance / by McGrath, Patrick J., 1984-

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God made word : an archaeology of mystic discourse in early modern Spain / by Shuger, Dale

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Faithful translators : authorship, gender, and religion in Early Modern England / by Goodrich, Jaime, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Anonymous representatives : Mary Percy, Potentiana Deacon, and monastic spirituality --…”
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Shakespearean sensations : experiencing literature in early modern England /

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Angels of light? : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period /

Table of Contents: “…Angels, Demons, and Everything in Between: Spiritual Beings in Early Modern Europe /…”
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Death be not proud : the art of holy attention / by Marno, David

Table of Contents: “…The pistis of the poem -- The thanksgiving machine -- Distracted prayers -- Attention exercises -- Extentus -- Sarcasmos -- The spiritual body -- Coda.…”
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Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature / by Sierra, Horacio

Table of Contents: “…Early modern nuns in context -- Reclaiming Isabella, the queer virgin: celebrating Catholicism's opportunities in Measure for measure -- Convents as feminist utopias: Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure and the potential of closeted dramas and communities -- The Sarao as conventual rhetorical space in María De Zaya's Desengaños amorosos -- Straddling the secular and spiritual divide: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's life and literature -- Extraconventual escapades: erstwhile nuns in Erauso's and Behn's fictions.…”

Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature / by Sierra, Horacio

Table of Contents: “…Early modern nuns in context -- Reclaiming Isabella, the queer virgin: celebrating Catholicism's opportunities in Measure for measure -- Convents as feminist utopias: Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure and the potential of closeted dramas and communities -- The Sarao as conventual rhetorical space in María De Zaya's Desengaños amorosos -- Straddling the secular and spiritual divide: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's life and literature -- Extraconventual escapades: erstwhile nuns in Erauso's and Behn's fictions.…”
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Religion, reform, and women's writing in early modern England / by Coles, Kimberly Anne, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers, and subjects in reformation England -- The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations -- Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr -- [A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics -- A new Jerusalem: Anne Lok's Meditation and the lyric voice -- A womans writing of diuinest things: Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation.…”
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The Johannine Renaissance in early modern English literature and theology / by Cefalu, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the Johannine Renaissance -- The flesh profiteth nothing: John 6, the bread of life, and devotional poetry of belief -- Noli me tangere and the reception of Mary Magdalene in early modern England -- Spiritual comfort and assurance: the role of the Paraclete in seventeenth-century poetry and polemic -- God is love: Johannine Agape and early modern devotional poetry -- Johannine dualism, antinomianism, and early modern English radical dissent -- Discipleship misunderstanding and Johannine irony in the poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan -- Afterword: the Johannine enchantment of the world.…”

Robert Southwell : snow in Arcadia : redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586-95 / by Sweeney, Anne

Table of Contents: “…9780719074189; 9780719074189; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction Ben Jonson's admiration for Southwell's'Burning Babe'; Chapter 1 Rome: the discernment of angels; Chapter 2 The Spiritual Exercises: the 'inward eie'; Chapter 3 Hidden ways and secret veins: into England; Chapter 4 The flight of angels: England's altered confidence; Chapter 5 Snow in Arcadia: rewriting the English lyric landscape; Chapter 6 Southwell's war of words; Chapter 7 The 'performing Word': Southwell's sacralised poetic; Chapter 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The imperfect friend : emotion and rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and their contexts / by Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…the friend as counsellor in Guazzo's The Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia -- Poetry as orator and physician in Sidney's Defence -- The politics of emotion in hospitality, rivalry, and erotic love: Sidney's New Arcadia -- Anger as an instrument of justice: the vehement versus the mild style of Milton's early prose -- Emotion as defined by the discourse of hounor: spiritual warfare and rhetorical agon in Paradise Lost -- Seventeenth-Century protestant rhetoric: cause and cure of fallen emotion -- Marriage as a site of counsel in marriage handbooks, Milton's divorce pamphlets, and Paradise Lost.…”
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Immateriality and early modern English literature : Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert / by Knapp, James A., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…: Concept and Action in 1 Henry IV -- Part 2: Believing -- The Visible and the Invisible: Seeing the Earthly--Believing the Spiritual -- 'When though knowest this, thou knowest': Intention, Intuition, and Temporality in Donne's Anatomy of the World -- 'a brittle crazy glass': George Herbert and the Experience of the Divine -- Part 3: Thinking -- Cognition and its Objects, or Ideas and the Substance of Spirit(s) -- 'Thinking makes it so': Mind, Body, and Spirit in The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing -- 'Neither Fish nor Flesh, nor Good Red Herring': Phenomenality, Representation, and Experience in The Tempest.…”
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A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater. by Kallendorf, Hilaire

Table of Contents: “…Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal ColónThe Quest for Spiritual Transcendence in the Theater of Gil Vicente; Lope de Vega and The Martyrs of Japan; Part Four Intersections; Picaresque Sensibility and the Comedia; Emblems at the Golden Age Theater; Science, Instrumentality, and Chaotics in Early Modern Spanish Drama; Melancholy, the Comedia, and Early Modern Psychology; Jacques Lacan and Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain; Chapter Summaries; Select Bibliography; Index.…”
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Prayer and performance in early modern English literature : gesture, word, and devotion /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 Playing at Prayer: The Spiritual Failure of Performance in HamletChapter 7 Prayer and Musical Performance: The Verse Anthem; Chapter 8 The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer; Chapter 9 Prayer in Context: The Dynamics of Worship in Donne's Encænia Sermon (1623); Chapter 10 'Your Suit is Granted': Performing Prayer in Early Modern English Poetry; Chapter 11 'The Royal Actor': King Charles I and the Performance of Prayer; Chapter 12 Vaughan's Devotional Prose as Political Act and Prayer; Chapter 13 'The Spirit of Prayer Inspired': Invocation as Prayer in Milton's Poetic Imagination…”
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Women warriors in early modern Spain : a tribute to Bárbara Mujica /

Table of Contents: “…Voros -- Vision, vulnerability, and the provocative "higas" in Lope de vega's Santa Teresa de Jesus / Sherry Velasco -- Teresa of Avila, spiritual warrior secularized : going for the subjective in Barbara Mujica's biographical fiction / Susan L. …”
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Flesh and spirit : an anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing /

Table of Contents: “…Gertrude More; The Holy Practises of a Devine Lover or the Sainctly Ideots Devotions (1657); The Spiritual Exercises of the Most Vertuous and Religious D. …”
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Conflicts of devotion : liturgical poetics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England / by Gibbons, Daniel R., 1976-