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Casuistry, prophecy, and dissimulation: discourses of early modern interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Jeanne Shami
Jeanne Shami
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University of Regina
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The Historical Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 727 - 732
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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2 See Dobin, Howard, Merlin's disciples (Stanford, 1990), p. 16Google Scholar.

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4 Montrose, Louis Adrian, ‘Professing the renaissance: the poetics and politics of culture’, in Veeser, H. Aram (ed.), The new historicism (New York, 1989)Google Scholar refers to the post-structuralist orientation in history as a ‘reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history’, p. 20.

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8 One of Lee Patterson's arguments against new historicism is its inattention to the ‘historically real’ and its denial of the individual and intentionality. See Negotiating the past, pp. 41–74.

9 For example, see Barker, Arthur, ‘Calm regained through passion spent’, in Rajan, B. (ed.), The prison and the pinnacle (Toronto, 1973), pp. 3–48Google Scholar.

10 At crucial points in his analysis, Zagorin relies on the interpretations of other historians for his arguments. See especially pp. 64, 91, 93, 97, 107, 145, 241, 260 and 267.