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Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters
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2022
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George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers’ writings and activities, despite the apparent differences both in what they wrote and in how they lived their lives. More specifically, the volume demonstrates that despite these differences, each conceived of their extended republic of letters as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity; theirs was a communion in which contention (or disputation) served to develop more dynamic forms of comprehensiveness. The literary, philosophical and musical production of the Herbert brothers appears here in its full European context, connected as they were with the Sidney clan and its investment in international Protestantism.
The disciplinary boundaries between poetry, philosophy, politics and theology in modern universities are a stark contrast to the deep interconnectedness of these pursuits in the seventeenth century. Crossing disciplinary and territorial borders, contributors discuss a variety of texts and media, including poetry, musical practices, autobiography, letters, council literature, orations, philosophy, history and nascent religious anthropology, all serving as agents of the circulation and construction of transregionally inspired and collective responses to human conflict and violence. We see as never before the profound connections, face-to-face as well as textual, linking early modern British literary culture with the continent.
The disciplinary boundaries between poetry, philosophy, politics and theology in modern universities are a stark contrast to the deep interconnectedness of these pursuits in the seventeenth century. Crossing disciplinary and territorial borders, contributors discuss a variety of texts and media, including poetry, musical practices, autobiography, letters, council literature, orations, philosophy, history and nascent religious anthropology, all serving as agents of the circulation and construction of transregionally inspired and collective responses to human conflict and violence. We see as never before the profound connections, face-to-face as well as textual, linking early modern British literary culture with the continent.
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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
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
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Dedication
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Notes on contributors
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Introduction
1 - Part I Thinking beyond borders: War and peace
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1 The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
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2 The Thirty Years’ War and George Herbert’s communion, an answer to violence
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3 “Being” James I
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4 Ceremony and self
101 - Part II Reconsidering conformity, community, and universality
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5 “Gerson, a Spirituall Man”
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6 Conformity and consent in Herbert of Cherbury
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7 “Devout humanism” and its problems
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8 George Herbert’s The Country Parson and John Calvin’s pastoral advice
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9 Edward Herbert’s The Amazon and De Veritate
218 - Part III The voices of transnational communities: From conversation to song
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10 Edward Herbert within the fellowship of gentlemen plain speakers
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11 “The little World the Great shall blaze”
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12 George Herbert and three French Protestant poets (Chandieu, Grévin, Sponde)
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13 Becoming “a Citizen of the world”
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14 “Sweet Singers of our Israel”
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Bibliography
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Index
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September 6, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526164087
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eBook ISBN:
9781526164087
Keywords for this book
early modern cosmopolitanism; early modern diplomacy; epistolary culture; European transnationalism; French Wars of Religion; intellectual communities; religious poetry; republic of letters
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
