Reformation Fictions: Polemical Protestant Dialogues in Elizabethan England. By Antoinina Bevan Zlatar

Books that originate in a PhD dissertation are often dull. Not so in this case, which is a clear, thorough and intelligent study of some 20 Protestant (or anti-Catholic) dialogues from the 16th century. The central argument is that a literary approach is more revealing than a historian’s. The genre...

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Published in:Literature and theology
Main Author: Forsyth, Neil (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2013
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 489-491
Review of:Reformation fictions (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Forsyth, Neil)
Reformation fictions (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Forsyth, Neil)
Reformation fictions (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) (Forsyth, Neil)
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Summary:Books that originate in a PhD dissertation are often dull. Not so in this case, which is a clear, thorough and intelligent study of some 20 Protestant (or anti-Catholic) dialogues from the 16th century. The central argument is that a literary approach is more revealing than a historian’s. The genre has indeed been studied before by those looking for examples of theological disputes or wider evangelical attitudes. Historians have treated the characters in the dialogues as if they were true-to-life types to be found in any Elizabethan village.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs067