Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Ohio), 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Apocalyptic history, Protestant politics, and allegorical methodology -- In the Revelation commentaries -- Protestant church historiography and Revelation commentaries and the Asia Minor narratives -- The early Asia Minor narratives and the primitive church -- Apocalyptic Arcadia and Elizabethan England -- Feeding upon Urania's "sweet words": overthrowing antichrist through devotion to the Word -- Erasmus in Arcadia -- Cecropia, Amphialus, and the church of antichrist -- Amphialus and the half-reformed Church of England -- The English church under the Tudor queens in Sidney's topical allegory -- Sidney's revised Arcadia as epic and apocalypse: an overview.
Summary:
"This study challenges prevailing critical assumptions concerning Protestantism and the New Arcadia, offering a rereading of Sidney's Arcadia as an apocalyptic allegory centrally concerned with--and rhetorically designed to influence and contribute to--debates on church reform and other religio-political issues specific to Sidney's Elizabethan culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 468
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