By Shakespeare, William; Hassel, R. Chris
Religious concerns and non secular discourse have been tremendously very important within the 16th and 17th century and non secular language is vital to an knowing of Shakespeare's performs and poems. This dictionary discusses simply over one thousand phrases and names in Shakespeare's works that experience a few non secular denotation or connotation. Its certain word-by-word strategy permits equivalent attention of the total spiritual nuance of every of those phrases, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It additionally steadily finds the patience, the diversity, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's non secular usage.
Frequent recognition is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in those phrases, and to Shakespeare's usually creative and playful metaphoric utilization of them. Theological and spiritual commonplaces additionally suppose an important position within the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical tales and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.
Entries comprise: angel, baptism, catechism, move, death's-head, satan, equivocation, evil, idiot, Saint George, GOd, grace, heaven, idolatry, Jove, Lutheran, benefit, Navarre, obsequy, Pope, pray, reform/reformation, sanctify, scripture, sin, soul, troth, unction, vice, and York.
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53). Adversaries of these churchmen are sometimes struck by the irony of their involvement in military and political affairs. 41, 47–9). 2–10). (C) See Whitgift (1851–53), 2: 265 for a sceptical account of the relationship between ecclesiastical hierarchy and spiritual authority. See also sword. ARCHDEACON (A) In Anglicanism, this ecclesiastical figure serves as a bishop’s assistant; in the Roman Church, the title can refer to a member of the cathedral chapter. 71) is the Archdeacon of Bangor, in whose house the rebels ‘divided the realme amongst them’ before the Battle of Shrewsbury.
Donne speaks vividly of this tradition when he says ‘God sends us a purgatory too in this life, Crosses, Afflictions, and Tribulations, and to burne out these infectious staines and impressions in our flesh, . . ’ ‘Affliction is a Christians daily bread’ (7:183). 37–8). 8–12). 47–9, 52–3). 11: ‘Ye have heard of the patience of Job’. See also Andrewes, 5: 443; Donne, 2: 177; and Shaheen (1999), 593. ALBONS, SAINT (A) Saint Albans. A shrine and a town named for Saint Alban, traditionally the first Christian martyr of Britain, a Roman soldier executed under the Emperor Decius in 254 for protecting a Christian priest.
Its ‘holy shrine’ was associated with miracles of healing. ’ Simpcox says of his pretended restoration of sight that he sees ‘clear as day, I thank God and Saint Albon’. 86, 88–90, 106, 129–31). 1. d. 150). (C) Farmer (1978), 8–9. The early Reformer Tyndale cites this story as part of his argument against miracles (2: 298n). The great English Reformer Cranmer (1846), 2: 65 relates another imposture at St Albans. ALL-ENDING DAY Doomsday, the day of judgement, the end of time. 78). See also doomsday, promised end.