Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- 15 Manuscript Transmission, Critical Editions, and English Translations
- 16 Reception in the Middle Ages
- 17 Reception in the Period of Reformations
- 18 Reception during the Enlightenment
- 19 Reading (in) Augustine’s Confessions
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
17 - Reception in the Period of Reformations
The Confessions, 1500–1650
from Part III - Reception and Reading Strategies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- 15 Manuscript Transmission, Critical Editions, and English Translations
- 16 Reception in the Middle Ages
- 17 Reception in the Period of Reformations
- 18 Reception during the Enlightenment
- 19 Reading (in) Augustine’s Confessions
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the reception of Augustine’s “Confessions” in autobiographical writing, drama, and poetry in Western Europe in the period 1500–1650.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 277 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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McCabe, W. J. An Introduction to Jesuit Theatre. St. Louis, MI: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1983.Google Scholar
Pollmann, K. and Otten, W. (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, three vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Visser, A. “Reading Augustine through Erasmus’ Eyes: Humanist Scholarship and Paratextual Guidance in the Wake of the Reformation.” Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 28 (2008), 67–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar