Lancelot Andrewes

Selected Sermons and Lectures
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-818774-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Reihe: Oxford English Texts

This is the first annotated critical edition of works of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), a writer recognized by literary critics, historians, and theologians as one of the most important figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Peter McCullough, a leading expert on religious writing in the early modern period, presents fourteen complete sermons and lectures preached by Andrewes across the whole range of his adult career, from Cambridge in the 1580s to the court of
James I and VI in the 1620s. Through a radical reassessment of Andrewes's life, influence, and surviving texts, the editor presents Andrewes as his contemporaries saw, heard, and read him, and as scholars are increasingly recognizing him: one of the most subtle, yet radical critics of mainstream
Elizabethan Protestantism, and a literary artist of the highest order.

The centuries-old influence of William Laud's authorized edition of Andrewes (1629) is here complicated and contextualized by the full use for the first time of the whole range of Andrewes's works printed before and after his lifetime, as well as manuscript sources. The edition also showcases the aesthetic brilliance of Andrewes's remarkable prose, and suggests new ways for scholars to carry forward the modern literary appreciation of Andrewes famously begun by T. S. Eliot. A full introductory
essay sets study of Andrewes on a new footing by placing his works in the context of his life and career, surveying the history of responses to his writings, and summarizing the history of the transmission of his texts. The texts here are edited to high modern critical standards. The exhaustive
commentary sets each selection in its historical context, documents Andrewes's myriad sources, glosses important and unfamiliar words and allusions, and translates his frequent quotations from the ancient Biblical languages.

Zielgruppe

Academics, graduate students, and undergraduates (colleges, universities, and seminaries) studying early-modern history, literature, and theology. Also clergy and well-educated active laymembers of the Church of England and Roman Catholic church with interests in church history or religious writing of earlier periods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrewes, Lancelot

McCullough, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden

Über Autor(innen)

Since completing his PhD at Princeton, Peter McCullough has held positions at Princeton University and Trinity College, Oxford. He is currently Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College and a Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.