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A korai kvékerek és Magyarország : egy levél és kontextusa
Get PDFThis paper provides an introduction to a curious case of religious contact between England and Hungary in the 17th century. After certain changes in the domestic setting, English Quakers launched a fervent (and in many cases apparently irrational) missionary campaign to foreign lands. In the New World, such efforts were rather successful. Dutch and German missions could also yield some — at least temporary — results. However, more opposition was to be encountered in contemporary Hungary, as the case of John Philly and William Moore will show. The two minor Quaker figures set out on a missionary journey to Hungary in 1662. The journey had a miserable end: the two Friends were put to prison, and they were questioned and tortured for months. Their suffering is retold in an epistle addressed to a major figure of the Dutch Quaker mission, and provides important, yet naturally biased insight into their treatment. The paper aims to provide a basic context for this letter, and to highlight some problems. for future research
The Uses of Demonology. European Missionaries and Native Americans in the American Southwest (17-18th Centuries)
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Tézis – antitézis: Czigányik Zsolt, Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (Palgrave Studies in Utopianism).
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Houston, Chloë. The Renaissance Utopia: Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 198 pp.
Get PDFThe title of Chloë Houston’s recent monograph on Renaissance utopia does not only hint at some of the main trends within utopian studies in the past decades, but it might also remind the reader of a 1980s classic on 16th-17th-century English utopian writing. The link is further reinforced by an explicit reference to the same in the blurb on the back of the volume, where the book advertises itself as “the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis’ Utopia and the Ideal Society to understand the societies projected by [early modern] utopian literature.” Marginal as such a text is to the whole volume, this short note epitomizes how the volume constantly struggles to find its place within the two main poles of utopian studies: the study of “societies projected” and “utopian literature.
Towards an ecocritical approach of John Milton's Lycidas
Get PDFThis paper examines John Milton’s famous pastoral poem, Lycidas, which was published in 1637. There are two basic questions posed in the present examination. First, I would like to explore the ways in which the poem is related to the pastoral tradition, calling attention to certain tensions permeating the tradition. Then I would like to figure out whether it is possible to read the text in the framework of ecocriticism, a critical school having been emerging from the 1990s, promising new ways of investigating the relationship between literary works and the physical world surrounding us. Since pastoral is an important area of study for ecocriticism, the juxtaposition will hopefully turn out to be a productive one
Jakob Boehme, Thomas Tryon, and the spiritual foundations of seventeenth-century ethical vegetarianism
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