The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity

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Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 251. 2. Mark Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614 (London: Longmans, 1875), 414. 3. H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers, 1558-1603. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1965), 112; William T. Costello, The Scholastic Curriculum at Early Seventeenth-Century Cambridge (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), 107; Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600–1660, Oxford History of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945), 294. 4.Amos Funkenstein, Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 3. 5. Before the late 1970s, of course, a vast amount of scholarship was devoted to the religious backgrounds of English Renaissance literature; the main reason religion has dropped out of Renaissance scholarship is that people got tired of articles on eucharistic imagery in The Faerie Queene, etc. Even this earlier research, however, usually conceived of religion as a circumscribed category unrelated to the constructions of gender, subjectivity, sexuality, power, nationalism , and so forth. 6. A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation, 2d ed. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989), 156. 7. Following the periodization customary among students of English literature, I use ‘’Renaissance’’ and “early modern period” interchangeably to cover the mid-fifteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries, although scholarship on the Continental Renaissance usually distinguishes the Renaissance (the fourteenth to mid-sixteenth centuries) from the early modern era (mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries). 205 ...