Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England

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This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature. -- .

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The well-crafted essays in this interesting collection share the assumption that the diversity of communicative media in early modern cultureincluding literary genres, festive practices, and sacramental ritualshelped cultivate a generalized interest in imagining what the thought of religious pluralization and its irenic potential (p. 2) might look and feel like in an era officially marked by confessional strife.
Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature

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Jonathan Baldo is Professor of English at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York

Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wrzburg, Germany