Treacherous Faith :

Loewenstein, David,

Treacherous Faith : The specter of heresy in early modern English literature & culture / David Loewenstein. - Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. - xii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-468) and index.

Part I : The specter of heresy and religious conflict in English Reformation literary culture -- Part II : The war against heresy in Milton's England --

'Treacherous Faith' is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering.

9780198778332 (Pbk) 9780199203390 (Hbk)


Religion and literature
Religion and literature
Christian heresies in literature.
Christian heretics
Christian heretics--History--England--16th century.--History--England--17th century.--History--England--16th century.--History--England--17th century.


England--Church history--16th century.
England--Church history--17th century.

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