Dr Freya Sierhuis

Literature of the Arminian Controversy

Religion, Politics and the Stage in the Dutch Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Literature of the Arminian Controversy highlights the importance of the Arminian Controversy (1609-1619) for the understanding of the literary and intellectual culture of the Dutch Golden Age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780198749738
• ISBN-10: 0198749732
• Artikelnr.: 47865808

Autorenporträt

Freya Sierhuis was trained at the University of Amsterdam and the University Cambridge and obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. She held an Exzellenzinitiative Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and currently works at the University of York. She specializes in literary culture and intellectual history of England and the Dutch Republic in the 16th and 17th century. Her current project is a monograph study of the Elizabethan poet and statesman Sir Fulke Greville. Together with Brian Cummings, she is editing the philosophical treaties for the forthcoming Clarendon edition of the Complete Works of Fulke Greville.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Church at the Crossroads. The Reformed in the Dutch Republic
* 2: Poets, Playwrights, and Pamphleteers during the Arminian
Controversy
* 3: Poets on the Offensive: Coster's Academy and the Staging of
Iphigenia
* 4: The Spectre of Civil War. Literary Reactions to the Death of
Oldenbarnevelt
* 5: Victim Tragedy and Vengeance. Vondel's Palamedes
* 6: The Academy and the Arminian Controversy in the first years of
Frederik Henrdrik's Stadtholderate
* Conclusion
* Bibliography