Love's quarrels : reading charity in early modern England /
Early modern English writers often complained that 'charity had grown cold,' lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political and religious changes that prompted urgen...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Charitable signs and tokens
- Charitable translation: Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Vagrant text
- Charitable admonition: moral reform in Elizabethan polemic and satire
- Charitable allegory: figures of love in Spenser's Faerie Queene
- Charitable use: Ben Jonson, city comedy, and commercial charity
- Charitable singularity: negotiations of liberty in Civil War England
- Conclusion: "Not a single charity."