Kirk Essary
Biographic Data
| ID | 1193832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk Essary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Essary |
| SIGNATURE | ESSARY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4645-973X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Erasmus on Literature
History of Emotions
As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the CHE, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion (initially focusing on Europe 1100–1800 and with the late Professor Philippa Maddern as its founding Director) and the fifth anniversary of the launch of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (founding Editors: Katie Barclay, Andrew Lynch, Giovanni Tarantino), it is only pertinent that we…
Before Emotion
Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Essary, Kirk. Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God: Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2018, pp. 5-245), on Érudit
Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Enduring Erasmus
This paper considers the future of Erasmus studies and scholarship on Christian humanism. It argues that two approaches will be especially useful going forward: reception history (of Erasmus’s works in particular) and the history of emotions. Both will aid in answering enduring questions about the relationship between the Renaissance and Reformation and the nature of Christian humanism, as well as opening up new avenues of inquiry in an area of s…
Clear as Mud
This paper argues that the recent trend in early modern studies occasionally referred to as the “new humoralism”, which lays heavy emphasis on the physiological and humoral significance of the emotions in seventeenth-century Renaissance literature, pays insufficient attention to the theological traditions of Christian humanism in the sixteenth century. In particular, the article traces a trajectory of the use of metaphors of clean versus muddy an…
Jewish Antiquity in the Sixteenth Century
An analysis of Calvin's multifaceted use of the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus reveals several things of importance both for scholarship on Renaissance historical and biblical criticism generally, and for Calvin studies in particular. Calvin's reception of Josephus was quite extraordinary in its breadth, and complex in its employment and function. References to the historian are peppered throughout his works in a wide array of contexts, from the…
We Languish in Obscurity” The Silence of God as Atavistic Calvinism in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
God's silence and hiddenness constitute a recurring theme in the works of American novelist Cormac McCarthy, and while this feature of his fiction can at one level be appreciated by considering McCarthy's fiction alongside late-modern literary giants like Melville and Dostoevsky—who dealt often with similar themes—I argue in this essay that McCarthy's God might be more fully understood when considered as falling on (and furthering) a trajectory i…
Doing Away with Darkness”
Walking into First Presbyterian Church in downtown Tallahassee, Florida, one is struck by the beauty of the emptiness of the place—the walls are completely bare, the glass unstained, not a crucifix in sight.1 Here is the telos of Reformed iconoclasm. But it isn't only the lack of painted icons, of crucifixes, or of painted glass that's so striking.2 It isn't, in other words, merely the absence of something that one finds to be aesthetically movin…
Clear as Mud
This paper argues that the recent trend in early modern studies occasionally referred to as the “new humoralism”, which lays heavy emphasis on the physiological and humoral significance of the emotions in seventeenth-century Renaissance literature, pays insufficient attention to the theological traditions of Christian humanism in the sixteenth century. In particular, the article traces a trajectory of the use of metaphors of clean versus muddy an…
We Languish in Obscurity” The Silence of God as Atavistic Calvinism in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
God's silence and hiddenness constitute a recurring theme in the works of American novelist Cormac McCarthy, and while this feature of his fiction can at one level be appreciated by considering McCarthy's fiction alongside late-modern literary giants like Melville and Dostoevsky—who dealt often with similar themes—I argue in this essay that McCarthy's God might be more fully understood when considered as falling on (and furthering) a trajectory i…
Doing Away with Darkness”
Walking into First Presbyterian Church in downtown Tallahassee, Florida, one is struck by the beauty of the emptiness of the place—the walls are completely bare, the glass unstained, not a crucifix in sight.1 Here is the telos of Reformed iconoclasm. But it isn't only the lack of painted icons, of crucifixes, or of painted glass that's so striking.2 It isn't, in other words, merely the absence of something that one finds to be aesthetically movin…
Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Enduring Erasmus
This paper considers the future of Erasmus studies and scholarship on Christian humanism. It argues that two approaches will be especially useful going forward: reception history (of Erasmus’s works in particular) and the history of emotions. Both will aid in answering enduring questions about the relationship between the Renaissance and Reformation and the nature of Christian humanism, as well as opening up new avenues of inquiry in an area of s…
Clear as Mud
This paper argues that the recent trend in early modern studies occasionally referred to as the “new humoralism”, which lays heavy emphasis on the physiological and humoral significance of the emotions in seventeenth-century Renaissance literature, pays insufficient attention to the theological traditions of Christian humanism in the sixteenth century. In particular, the article traces a trajectory of the use of metaphors of clean versus muddy an…
Jewish Antiquity in the Sixteenth Century
An analysis of Calvin's multifaceted use of the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus reveals several things of importance both for scholarship on Renaissance historical and biblical criticism generally, and for Calvin studies in particular. Calvin's reception of Josephus was quite extraordinary in its breadth, and complex in its employment and function. References to the historian are peppered throughout his works in a wide array of contexts, from the…
Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Essary, Kirk. Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God: Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2018, pp. 5-245), on Érudit
Before Emotion
History of Emotions
As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the CHE, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion (initially focusing on Europe 1100–1800 and with the late Professor Philippa Maddern as its founding Director) and the fifth anniversary of the launch of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (founding Editors: Katie Barclay, Andrew Lynch, Giovanni Tarantino), it is only pertinent that we…
Erasmus on Literature
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