Borrow it
Coverart for item
The Resource The political Bible in early modern England, Kevin Killeen, University of York, (electronic resource)

The political Bible in early modern England, Kevin Killeen, University of York, (electronic resource)

Creator
Summary
This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century, from top to bottom and across all religious positions. It shows how constitutional thought, in this most tumultuous era of civil war, regicide and republic, was forged on the Bible, and how writers ranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorous biblical discourse.--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 310 pages)
Contents
  • Introduction: The political Bible
  • Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament
  • The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years War
  • Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor
  • Constitution and resistance : the language of civil war political thought
  • Dividing the kingdom : Rehoboam and Jeroboam
  • Hanging up kings : regicide and political memory
  • Preaching on the ramparts : Hezekiah at war
  • How Jezebel became sexy : Ahab, Naboth's land and Jezebelian hermeneutics
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Chronology of Biblical kings
Isbn
9781316257388
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316257388
Instance
Label
The political Bible in early modern England
Title
The political Bible in early modern England
Statement of responsibility
Kevin Killeen, University of York
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century, from top to bottom and across all religious positions. It shows how constitutional thought, in this most tumultuous era of civil war, regicide and republic, was forged on the Bible, and how writers ranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorous biblical discourse.--
Member of
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
UkCbUP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Killeen, Kevin
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
  • Cambridge studies in early modern British history
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Bible and politics
  • Kings and rulers
  • Monarchy
  • Politics in the Bible
  • Renaissance
  • England
  • Great Britain
Label
The political Bible in early modern England, Kevin Killeen, University of York, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316257388
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: The political Bible -- Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament -- The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years War -- Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor -- Constitution and resistance : the language of civil war political thought -- Dividing the kingdom : Rehoboam and Jeroboam -- Hanging up kings : regicide and political memory -- Preaching on the ramparts : Hezekiah at war -- How Jezebel became sexy : Ahab, Naboth's land and Jezebelian hermeneutics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Chronology of Biblical kings
Control code
CR9781316257388
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 310 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781316257388
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)972092432
Label
The political Bible in early modern England, Kevin Killeen, University of York, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316257388
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: The political Bible -- Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament -- The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years War -- Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor -- Constitution and resistance : the language of civil war political thought -- Dividing the kingdom : Rehoboam and Jeroboam -- Hanging up kings : regicide and political memory -- Preaching on the ramparts : Hezekiah at war -- How Jezebel became sexy : Ahab, Naboth's land and Jezebelian hermeneutics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Chronology of Biblical kings
Control code
CR9781316257388
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 310 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781316257388
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)972092432

Subject

Genre

Member of

Library Locations

    • Badia FiesolanaBorrow it
      Via dei Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole, 50014, IT
      43.803074 11.283055

Library Links

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by European University Institute Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.