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"Erring ""humanum Genus"" And The Providential Heroine In ""the Two Gentlemen Of Verona"", ""the Merchant Of Venice,"" And ""the Winter's Tale"""
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Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England
… between and within human groups. I use the term *providential emblematisation* to describe the process by which these texts transformed humans into legible signs, training the reader to understand their own flawed interiority in relation to the spectacle of human deformity and, consequently, to …
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Divine providence and epidemic cholera : a contribution to the study of secularization of thought in nineteenth century England
… means of tracing developments in perceptions of providential involvement in calamitous events during a critical twenty-four year period. Systematic surveys of a broad range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals and sermons were carried out to document the responses of different sections …
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Madness and divinity: Wycherley's reflexive drama
… of the contrivance of a Divine Dramatist, whose providential governance brings order and justice to the play of life. These satiric comedies further suggest that most of the characters have turned inward to their own minds to generate unique “scripts” and that they ignore providential order; …
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The growth and development of American satire: 1630-1895
… which asserted an ‘ideal America’ using a providential frame, forging a link between sacred and secular values. During the course of the American Revolution satirists incorporated essentially secular and humanistic values within the providential frame and continued to assert the possibility …
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Providence and Alchemy: Paracelsus on How Knowledge Unfolded, Matter Developed, and Bodies Might Be Perfected.
… world. A term that Paracelsus used broadly for providential transformation was 'alchemy.' Contrary to the current consensus view in the scholarship, however, I show that in addition to this broad usage of the term, Paracelsus remained a believer in and practitioner of metallic transmutation …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
… a new nation, blessed by God, and continuing the providential spirit of the Revolution. Likewise, their nation could only survive by God’s aid. Southern honor, largely shaped by Sir Walter Scott, spirited chivalrous attitudes towards women, pugilism, and one’s rank in his community. Slaveholder …
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… participation in the broader tradition of providential thought, casting Americans as having a special relationship with God. Chapter two looks at the clerics’ reflections on leadership in the new republic. Chapter three considers how these clerics used Washington’s death as a way of …
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Oliver Cromwell and the Print Culture of the Interregnum
… neither monarchists nor republicans. Employing providential language, the sects were able to convince Cromwell that God had judged against the office of king and that any attempt to reestablish such a government would result in eternal damnation. Cromwell’s own religious convictions rendered him …
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The Devil in Virginia: Fear in Colonial Jamestown, 1607-1622
… Reformed belief recognized the existence of providential actions based upon continued adherence to the Englishʼs nationally perceived covenant with the Almighty. Efforts to maintain Godʼs favor resulted in a reformation of manners jump-started by Sir Thomas Daleʼs Lawes Divine, Morall and …
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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self: Living in the Truth
… defend a definition of history that allows for a Providential sense of history whereby the past could be actively forgotten whereby crimes could be forgiven. In this work I examine Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the self as developed in Oneself as Another (Soi-même comme un autre, 1990) as well as its …
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… issue, as civil wars seem to deny the providential teleology, presided over by Jupiter, which traditionally sustains the unfolding of the epic plot towards its telos. The fourth chapter presents a new form of civil struggle, psychomachy, a war of the self fought within one’s soul …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
… a genuine and passionate statement of faith in a providential, teleological universe unfolding according to God’s plan. Rather than presenting this religious worldview merely as a step along a path leading to secularization, as have many histories analyzing this period, this study focuses …
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A philosophical, scientific, and theological analysis of the problem of creaturely suffering: towards a new perception of God and pain
… God is loving, and 2) used to illustrate God’s providential care through natural pain-mitigating processes. Third, Martin Buber’s “I-Thou” relational theology, the Book of Job, and the brain opioid theory of social attachment are employed to show that loving, empathetic relationships with God …
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Manifestations of heavenly light and fire and the construction of a saint: sanctity, mission and salvation in Adomnán's Vita Columbae
… examines the missiological, soteriological and providential elements contributing to Adomnán’s portrayal of Columba’s sanctity, as conveyed through the presence of biblical models, particularly the image of the column of fire. Chapter five establishes the influence of monastic examinations of …
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
… and the rise of Protestant predestinarian and providential belief shifted the purpose of commemoration to edification of the living. This shift, alongside the rise of literacy and expansion of print culture, shaped what was commemorated about the dead, allowed new forms of commemorative texts …
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The impact of the regicide of Charles I on contemporary English notions of time and the future
… it within grand narratives of God’s providential plans on earth, of generational changes in society and politics, or of recurring cycles of rebellious behaviour. The regicide gave contemporaries an opportunity to create, clarify, and strengthen their grand narratives and schemes of …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
… sleight of hand, nor any inducement to providential scepticism. Rather, that it served to affirm that the vicissitudes that afflicted human affairs had their proper causes in sin, and that a historian’s forensic hindsight could identify which specific sins had engendered Providence’s …
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Creating a gens Anglorum: Social and Ethnic Identity in Anglo-Saxon England through the Lens of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica
… the Anglo-Saxon period. Bede's exemplary and providential history had created an image of an idealised past to inspire change in the present, and these models resonated with writers throughout this period. This study engages with the legacy of Bede's text by surveying a wide range of case …
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