A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES FROM 1525 TO 1578 HUMANISM did not long remain without other admixture . Hardly had it affected literature when its influence was crossed and opposed by that of the religious Reformation . Most of the men of whom ...
... RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES FROM 1525 TO 1578 HUMANISM did not long remain without other admixture . Hardly had it affected literature when its influence was crossed and opposed by that of the religious Reformation . Most of the men of whom ...
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... Religious Houses . - The other great change in the reign of Henry VIII which reacted on letters was the suppression of the religious houses from 1535 to 1539.1 To - day it is still difficult to say whether the measure was to the ...
... Religious Houses . - The other great change in the reign of Henry VIII which reacted on letters was the suppression of the religious houses from 1535 to 1539.1 To - day it is still difficult to say whether the measure was to the ...
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... religious prose of the Renascence is equal in literary beauty and im- portance to the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible . From Anglo - Saxon times onwards there had been many previous translations of the Scriptures , but this one ...
... religious prose of the Renascence is equal in literary beauty and im- portance to the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible . From Anglo - Saxon times onwards there had been many previous translations of the Scriptures , but this one ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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