...This chapter examines the making of Peter Heylyn as a Laudian polemicist, suggesting that he belongs to the Laudians who went through an earlier Calvinist phase. There is little early sign of the preoccupations of his Laudian writings and there is no Laudian equivalent of a puritan conversion...

...0 09 08 2007 John Milton (1608–1674), poet and polemicist, was born at 6.30 a.m. on Friday 9 December 1608 in the house at the sign of the Spread Eagle, Bread Street, London, and baptized in nearby All Hallows Church on 20 December, the third child of John Milton (1562–1647), and his wife, Sara...

...This chapter continues the examination of reactions to government policy in the reign of Charles I. It focuses on the sufferings and triumphs of the polemicist William Prynne, and pays particular attention to the political theatre enacted through his body and his image. This is a story...

... halakhic activity; and his activity as a polemicist, notably against the Karaites. An epilogue sums up his importance in medieval Jewish culture. Particularly valuable features of the book are the copious quotations from Sa'adyah's works, which facilitate familiarity with his style as well as his ideas...

... people about the loss of sovereignty and the loss of parliament that protected the interests of the church. It reports that George Ridpath, a London-based Presbyterian polemicist, was one of the first to enter the fray in defence of Scotland's sovereignty. Atwood William Cameronians Drake James...

...Perhaps the major difference between the use of ‘paroles’ in this letter and the function of words in the Pensées lies in the fact that the polemicist, despite his recognition of the inadequacy of language, believes in the internal truth of words. In the Pensées...

... by the apprenticeship that he served by becoming a polemicist. The most obscene of the pamphlets are Of Reformation, Animadversions, and Colasterion, though he also used some rude remarks in Defenses. Milton John biography Hale W T Hall bishop Joseph...

..., illuminating his work as a composer and highlighting his numerous other roles as an active supporter of amateur music-makers, a leader in the folk-song revival, educator, performer, campaigner for English music, and polemicist. By addressing a variety of topics, Vaughan Williams reveals the complex...

...The Roman emperor Julian is a figure of ongoing interest and the subject of this book. This unique examination of Julian as the last pagan emperor and anti-Christian polemicist revolves around his drive and status as a ruler. The book outlines the dramatic impact of Julian's short-lived regime...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the career and works of Laudian and royalist polemicist Peter Heylyn in seventeenth-century England. It outlines Heylyn's basic ideological stances and identifies some of the tensions and ambiguities within them, before reassessing...

..., even congratulatory it would be more dangerous.’ ³² Graham, it seems, certainly at this early stage of his writing career (pre-1900), remained first and foremost a polemicist, where the style, and even the subject, remained secondary to the broadly political message. 25. Cunninghame...

...0 10 12 1992 Jerome, scholar, translator, exegete, polemicist, and ascetic, was born into a Christian family at Stridon in the Roman province of Dalmatia around the year 347. His parents were people of property and substance, though we know little else about them, not even his mother’s name...

... to a large house in Aldersgate Street, where he was able to take on additional pupils. Milton’s life in the 1640s was divided between his duties as a teacher and his avocation as a polemicist involved in the controversy about church government and initiating a debate about divorce. Churchyard responsibility...