Refiguring the Sacred Feminine: The Poems of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer and John Milton

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383 Index Adam, 82, 142, 162–63, 257–84, 286–87, 302 Agrippa, Cornelius, 105 Ambrose, Saint, 65 Anabaptism, 60 Andrew (apostle), 160 Anglican Church. See Church of England Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, 45–46, 50, 70, 109, 111, 114–18, 121, 193, 198–99, 221, 331n7 Anniversaries (Donne), 8 Annunciation, 132–33, 174–77, 298 Apocrypha, 343n4 Apollo, 224–25 apostolic succession, 138, 149–62 Aquinas, Thomas, 65, 67, 96, 98, 102, 237, 342n3 Arianism, 4, 292 Arminianism, 4, 233, 292, 305 art, and nature, 128–29, 203–05 atonement, 141 Augustine, Saint: on chastity, 238; on church unity, 59–62; Confessions, 56; Donne and, 8, 56, 65; Expositions of the Psalms, 56; on love, 46; on resurrection, 96, 98–99; on sacraments, 68, 77; and sexuality, 57–58, 99, 249; and Trinity, 24, 30; and wisdom, 56–59, 232, 284–85, 342n3; and women, 99 Bale, John, 90 baptism, 43, 75 Barker, Arthur E., 4 Barlow, William, 109, 123 beauty, 166–69 Bedford, Countess of. See Russell, Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford Bellarmine, Robert, 22 Bernard of Clairvaux, 174 Bertie, Susan, Countess Dowager of Kent, 164, 194–95 Bewley, Marius, 71–72 Bishop’s Bible, 133 Blackwell, George, 22 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 189 body: Christ’s, 130–31, 138, 144, 171–72; Lanyer and, 166; resurrection and, 99; of woman, 130–31, 166. See also flesh Book of Common Prayer, The, 121, 141, 158 Boss, Sarah Jane, 134, 333n26 Boyle, Marjorie O’Rourke, 300, 302 Bradburie, Thomas, 19 Braden, Gordon, 264 bride of Christ. See Jesus Christ: spouse of Brooks, Cleanth, 252 Brown, Cedric, 218–19, 227, 247, 251 Brucioli, Antonio, 235 Byng, Thomas, 19 384 Index Calvin, John: and Cana wedding feast, 301–02; Donne and, 65; on Jesus’ intellectual development, 292–93; and Mary, 133, 295–97, 301–02; on Real Presence, 93; on sacraments, 77; on transubstantiation, 91 Calvinism, 2, 4, 68, 127 Cana wedding feast, 301–02 Carew, Thomas, “A Rapture,” 276 Carey, John, 230, 244, 285 Catholicism. See Roman Catholicism celibacy, 171, 184. See also chastity Charles I, King of England, 217, 227–28, 254 Charles II, King of England, 11 chastity, 178, 190, 232–33, 237–38, 243–51. See also celibacy Chaucer, Geoffrey, 165, 272 childbirth, 38, 79, 183 Christian humanism, 217 Christian IV, King of Denmark, 193 Christina, Queen of Sweden, 191 Christology, 285 church. See Ecclesia Church Militant, 231, 232, 234–35, 237, 241, 246 Church of England (Anglican Church), 52, 72 Cleopatra, 168–69 Clifford, Anne, Countess of Dorset, 111, 147, 150–51, 178, 205, 208–11 Clifford, George, 183 Clifford, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, 10, 70, 111–13, 115–16, 125, 129–30, 141–43, 146–48, 150, 155, 158–59, 161–62, 171–72, 178, 183–85, 188, 194–97, 207–08, 210–12, 217, 251, 253 Coiro, Anne Baynes, 212 Conti, Natale, 244–46 Cook, Patrick, 213 Corinthians, Letters to, 139 Corthell, Ronald, 83, 249 Cox, Catherine I., 233, 235–36 Creaser, John, 228 Cumberland, Countess of. See Clifford, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland Curle, Edward, 17, 20 Cybele, 224–25 Daniel, Samuel, The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, 114 Daniels, Edgar F., 38 Danielson, Dennis, 280, 282 death, 30–31 De Critz, John, 166 Derby, Dowager Countess of. See Egerton, Alice Spencer Stanley, Dowager Countess of Derby desire: Christ as object of, 164, 171–72; female, 164, 174, 182–85, 189, 194; human nature and, 184; Lanyer’s, 197–200; Mary and, 172–74; Queen of Sheba and, 184–85, 188–90. See also eros; sexuality Dobranski, Stephen B., 4 Donatism, 59–60 Donne, John: on Adam, 82; and alchemy, 84–86; An Anatomie of the World, 83, 90; Anniversaries, 8, 64–78, 312–13 (see also The First Anniversarie; The Second Anniversarie); “The Annuntiation and Passion,” 7, 20–35, 65, 312; and baptism, 43; “Batter my hart,” 164; Biathanatos, 23, 313; “The Broken Heart,” 62; “The Canonization,” 86, 304; and Catholicism, 3, 53–54, 56, 71–72, 84, 101; and Christ, 25–26; Christ and Elizabeth Drury compared by, 76–77, 83–84, 88, 91–93; and Christian divisions, 59–60, 62–63, 75; and Christ’s spouse, 51–53, Index 385 58–61; contributions of, 215; La Corona, 97, 312; and courtly culture, 107–08; and death, 30–31; Devotions, 65; and Ecclesia, 9, 14, 28–32, 34–35, 253, 312; Elegies, 107; and Elizabeth I, 15–19...