Politics and Religion in Seventeenth Century France.

1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 620
Author(s):  
David D. Bien ◽  
W. J. Stankiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Politics And Religion

Constructing Islam in an Early Modern Anthology: Intertextuality, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 959-999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Machlis Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Book Building

AbstractThis article discusses an early modernSammelband(collected volume) that compiles epithalamia celebrating the wedding of Elizabeth Stuart with two translations, William Vaughan’s “The new-found politicke” and Robert Ashley’s “Almansor.” By highlighting the varied uses of Muslim exemplarity and alterity within one compilation, this article reveals the effects of recontextualization invited by the process of book building in the larger context of the Thirty Years’ War. ThisSammelbandstudy argues that translation, repurposing, and the material processes of compilation unsettle narratives of religious difference used by European writers to make sense of political conflict in the early seventeenth century.

Historical Context

The Devils ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Darren Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
Race War

This chapter discusses the historical context of Ken Russell's The Devils (1973), as the timing of the first appearance of the film is of great importance in a way which spreads out way beyond the confines of the cinema screen. Despite its firm seventeenth-century setting—and its ongoing relevance—The Devils is very much a film for 1971, and its ideas about spirituality said much about the time in which the film was released. Uncomfortable parallels could also be made with the Troubles in Northern Ireland; this conflict, for which both politics and religion provided much of the fuel, had been underway for some time when The Devils was released. And with the world only starting to recover from the Manson murders, which were deemed to have been committed in order to ignite a race war, the film also served up a scarcely needed reminder of the case's chief bogeyman in the form of Father Barré. Audiences in 1971 certainly had plenty to think about, and The Devils did not provide an easy evening of escapism. The film had much to say to the audience of its time, and the vexatious nature of its message endures to the present day.

Presbyterians in the Restoration

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
George Southcombe
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Politics

This chapter examines the ways in which Presbyterian identity was reluctantly refashioned in the late seventeenth century. It discusses the failure of the Presbyterian political and religious programmes at the Restoration, and emphasizes the implications of these failures for the future of Presbyterianism. It shows how living under the penal code meant that Presbyterians adopted practices that could evolve into a structure independent of the national Church, at the same time as demonstrating that hopes for comprehension continued throughout the period. It traces the ultimate reasons for the failure of comprehension, and the processes by which a distinct Presbyterian identity emerged. It concludes by examining some of the ways in which the history of Restoration Presbyterianism might not simply be a history of failure, and suggests its broader impact on English politics and religion.

Politics in the Archives: Records, Property, and Plantation Politics in Massachusetts Bay, 1642-1650

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Beaver
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Massachusetts Bay ◽  
Land Law ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Massachusetts Bay Colony ◽  
The Face

AbstractThis essay concerns the permutations of English popular politics in its seventeenth-century Atlantic setting, using the record of local and individual experience of politics to examine the process whereby settlers took possession of land in Massachusetts Bay. Historians have long appreciated the importance of English local customs in the early North American settlements, but the explicit political significance of English corporate and manorial approaches to land law in these settlements, and in the expansion of the Massachusetts Bay regime during the 1640s, have not been properly understood. The essay's perspective is microhistorical, developing its case from Obadiah Bruen's detailed "town book" of the Gloucester plantation: the book that he kept as the settlement's recorder between 1642 and 1650. The plantation occupied a key set of coordinates at the junction of English popular politics and religion and the building of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the 1640s. Using a close reading of Bruen's text, the essay identifies a politics of land possession, fashioned from traditional English political forms and their uses of land law, that sustained the Gloucester plantation, much like the colony as a whole, through a decade of bitter internal divisions. In the face of religious conflict and the myriad difficulties of building a new regime, political order came to depend, in Gloucester as in Massachusetts Bay generally, on the power to convey secure title to the possession of land, a power enshrined in the routine administrative records of local notaries or recorders, officially required in each Massachusetts Bay township during the 1640s.

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