Objects, Words, and Religion: Popular Belief and Protestantism in Early Modern England-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Objects, Words, and Religion: Popular Belief and Protestantism in Early Modern England

Published:2017-03-28 Issue:1 Volume:52 Page:103-145
ISSN:2082-5102
Container-title:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
language:en
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Author:

Ludwikowska Joanna¹²

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), E. J. Pratt Library, Room 301, 71 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto ON M5S 1K7, Canada

2. Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, al. Niepodległości 4, 61–874 Poznań , Poland

Abstract

Abstract This article deals with selected aspects of popular belief in post-Reformation England as compared to the pre-Reformation popular tradition of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. Through a discussion of the politics of superstition and religiously-shaped concepts of reason in Early Modern England, this article discusses medicinal magic, and the power of objects and words in the context of religion and popular belief, focusing in particular on leprosy and exorcism. By examining the Protestant understanding of the supernatural as well as its polemical importance, the article investigates the perseverance of popular belief after the Reformation and outlines some of the reasons and politics behind this perseverance, while also examining the role of the supernatural in the culture of belief in Early Modern England by tracing the presence and importance of particular beliefs in popular imagination and in the way religion and confessional rhetoric made use of popular beliefs.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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