Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis A Context for the Faerie Queene 1st Edition by Margaret Christian 9781526107831 152610783X

Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis A Context for the Faerie Queene 1st Edition Margaret Christian – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781526107831, 152610783X

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• ISBN 10: 152610783X
• ISBN 13: 9781526107831
• Author:  Margaret Christian

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene ‘will seeme displeasaunt’ to those who would ‘rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large.’ Spenser’s allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis is the first book-length study to clarify Spenser’s comparison by introducing readers to the biblical typologies of contemporary sermons and liturgies. The result demonstrates that ‘precepts … sermoned at large’ from lecterns and pulpits were themselves often ‘clowdily enwrapped in allegoricall devises’. In effect, routine churchgoing prepared Spenser’s first readers to enjoy and interpret The Faerie Queene. A wealth of relevant quotations invites readers to adopt an Elizabethan mindset and encounter the poem afresh. The ‘chronicle history’ cantos, Florimell’s adventures, the Souldan episode, Mercilla’s judgment on Duessa and even the two stanzas that close the Mutabilitie fragment, all come into sharper focus when juxtaposed with contemporary religious rhetoric.

Table contents:

1 Traditional scriptural interpretation and sixteenth-century allegoresis: old and new

2 Allegorical reading in occasional Elizabethan liturgies

3 Allegorical reading in sermon references to history and current events

4 “The ground of Storie”: genealogy in biblical exegesis and the Legend of Temperance1

5 “Waues of weary wretchednesse”: Florimell and the sea1

6 Saracens, Assyrians, and Spaniards: allegories of the Armada

7 “a goodly amiable name for mildness”: Mercilla and other Elizabethan types

8 Court and courtesy: sermon contexts for Spenser’s Book VI

9 “Now lettest thou thy servant depart”: scriptural tradition and the close of The Faerie Queene1

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