Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

by David Loewenstein

Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark, often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778333
• ISBN13: 9780198778332
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"