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The Book of Books
2021
Overview
Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined
theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time
shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and
political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the
Renaissance Bible, Desiderius Erasmus and William Tyndale, are
cases in point, one writing in Latin, the other in the vernacular.
Erasmus undertook the project of retranslating and annotating the
New Testament at the same time that he developed rhetorical
approaches for addressing princes in his Education of a
Christian Prince (1516); Tyndale was occupied with biblically
inflected works such as his Obedience of a Christian Man
(1528) while translating and annotating the first printed English
Bibles.
In The Book of Books , Thomas Fulton charts the process
of recovery, interpretation, and reuse of scripture in early modern
England, exploring the uses of the Bible as a supremely
authoritative text that was continually transformed for political
purposes. In a series of case studies linked to biblical
translation, polemical tracts, and works of imaginative literature
produced during the reigns of successive English rulers, he
investigates the commerce between biblical interpretation,
readership, and literary culture. Whereas scholars have often drawn
exclusively on modern editions of the King James Version, Fulton
turns our attention toward the specific Bibles that writers used
and the specific manner in which they used them. In doing so, he
argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others were in
conversation not just with the biblical text itself, but with the
rich interpretive and paratextual structures that accompanied it,
revolving around sites of social controversy as well as the larger,
often dynastically oriented conditions under which particular
Bibles were created.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Subject
ISBN
9780812252668, 0812252667
