Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser on Transnational Governance and the Future of Christendom

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 369 - 411
• Main Author: Lockey, Brian C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.01.2021
• Subjects: 16th century; Christianity; Christians; Cristianismo; Elizabethan period; English literature; Escritores; Ficción; Fiction; Good & evil; Literatura inglesa; Plot (Narrative); Popes; Reconciliation; Religion; Religion and politics; Religión y politica; Renaissance period; Secularism; Sidney, Philip (1554-1586); Siglo XVI; Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Theology; Transnationalism; Writers; England; Italy; United Kingdom > UK; Europe

This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of European religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, amid the perceived Ottoman threat to Christendom. In their fictional works, these authors imagine an overarching authority that might replace...