The political Bible in early modern England

"Looks at the political uses of the biblical kings and the Old Testament in the Renaissance ... the work explores the scriptural ambivalence to and suspicion of monarchy and constitutes a reception history of the biblical texts on kingship across the seventeenth century; the study also provides...

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Author / Creator: Killeen, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central.