Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the text
- Prologue: Setting – and unsettling – the stage
- Introduction: The space of the supernatural
- Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus
- Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural
- Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography
- Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth
- Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest
- Epilogue: Re-enchanting geography
- Notes to the text
- Index
Epilogue: Re-enchanting geography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the text
- Prologue: Setting – and unsettling – the stage
- Introduction: The space of the supernatural
- Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus
- Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural
- Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography
- Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth
- Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest
- Epilogue: Re-enchanting geography
- Notes to the text
- Index
Summary
I have observ'd it in the Modern Writings of this sort of men . . . that they seldom or never finish a Discourse, though it be about Religion, without bringing in of Geometrical terms, especially Angles and Triangles.
John Edwards, Sermons on Special Occasions and Subjects (1698), p. 403In this book, I have sought to bring together the “religious turn” and the “spatial turn” of recent early modern studies. Both the study of religion and the study of space have been enlivened by an outpouring of creative scholarship, but the conversations about these topics have been taking place in different rooms, as it were. I hope to have demonstrated that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, the spatial was inflected by religion, and religion was influenced by notions of space. Maps, for instance, were a way of talking about God, and demons were approached through geography.
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- Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's EnglandSpaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama, pp. 219 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011