Kevin Killeen
Biographic Data
| ID | 460824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Killeen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Killeen |
| SIGNATURE | KILLEEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6313-1081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The outrageous inner lives of plants
Guidelines for authors
This study examines the impact of the poem’s descriptive passages on internal and external spectators, and their efficiency in implementing Gawain’s moral itinerary, which is also accessible, indeed intended, for the poem’s audience. The aim is to demonstrate the transformative power of a visual journey endowed with a moral purpose, where the spectacular is never dissociated from the specular; where all visions, whether perceptual or mental, lead…
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This study examines the impact of the poem’s descriptive passages on internal and external spectators, and their efficiency in implementing Gawain’s moral itinerary, which is also accessible, indeed intended, for the poem’s audience. The aim is to demonstrate the transformative power of a visual journey endowed with a moral purpose, where the spectacular is never dissociated from the specular; where all visions, whether perceptual or mental, lead…
Error, Sprawl and Epistemological Poise in Thomas Browne
Unknowable in Early Modern Thought
The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought
Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality. Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought ex…
Political Bible in Early Modern England
The Political Bible in Early Modern England
This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptura…
Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550–1700
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‘A king like other nations’
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700
The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to preacher, from the 'boy that driveth the plough', famously invo…
The Oxford edition of the sermons of John Donne. Volume III
The Oxford edition of the sermons of John Donne. Volume III: Sermons at the court of Charles I, edited by David Colclough, general editor Peter McCullough, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, lv + 521 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19956548-1This first of the 16 volumes that will form The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne inaugurates what looks to be a splendid series, bold and brilliant in design, impeccably annotated and dizzy…
The Mosaic Constitution
Graham L. Hammill. The Mosaic Constitution: Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii + 328 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-31542-3. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned
Hanging up Kings
While "religion" as an ecclesiastical, institutional, and doctrinal phenomenon in seventeenth-century England has been subject to intensive scrutiny, the language of scriptural thinking remains a blind-spot to scholarship. One example of the inattention to the Bible as a working currency of political thought in the seventeenth century is the widespread notion of the English regicide as unprecedented and unthinkable in the early modern mind before…
Of the Nature and Use of Lots
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science ‐ by Claire Preston
The Word and the World
This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It addresses the idea that the natural philosophers of the era forged thei
The Doctor Quarrels with Some Pictures
This essay explores Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646), with its lengthy book on 'errors' in animal lore. In the limited critical literature on Browne's natural history, this author is generally seen as stumbling towards a zoological idiom and clearing away the emblematic 'clutter' of earlier writers on natural history--Gesner, Aldrovandi, Topsell or Franzius. This essay proposes that Browne is working with a more complex set of co-ordi…
The word and the world
List of figures Notes on contributors Introduction P.J.Forshaw & K.Killeen PART 1: THE WORD AND THE WORLD The Use of Creatures: Allegory, the Literal Sense and the Contemplative Life P.Harrison Making Sense of Science and the Literal: Modern Semantics and Early Modern Hermeneutics J.D.Fleming Reading the Two Books with Francis Bacon: Interpreting God's Will and Power S.Matthews Textual Criticism and Early Modern Natural Philosophy: The Case of Ma…
Three pounds and fifteen shillings; the inconsiderable salary of Judas’
This essay explores how early modern ideas of law and custom, focusing intensely on the Bible, became increasingly aware of the shifting meaning of biblical law codes over Old and New Testament time and the meanings encoded in biblical actions. It traces the emergence of the idea over the course of the early modern era that right interpretation of the Bible demanded a significant historical sensibility. This exegetical imperative took on particul…
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Three pounds and fifteen shillings; the inconsiderable salary of Judas’
This essay explores how early modern ideas of law and custom, focusing intensely on the Bible, became increasingly aware of the shifting meaning of biblical law codes over Old and New Testament time and the meanings encoded in biblical actions. It traces the emergence of the idea over the course of the early modern era that right interpretation of the Bible demanded a significant historical sensibility. This exegetical imperative took on particul…
The Word and the World
This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It addresses the idea that the natural philosophers of the era forged thei
The Doctor Quarrels with Some Pictures
This essay explores Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646), with its lengthy book on 'errors' in animal lore. In the limited critical literature on Browne's natural history, this author is generally seen as stumbling towards a zoological idiom and clearing away the emblematic 'clutter' of earlier writers on natural history--Gesner, Aldrovandi, Topsell or Franzius. This essay proposes that Browne is working with a more complex set of co-ordi…
The word and the world
List of figures Notes on contributors Introduction P.J.Forshaw & K.Killeen PART 1: THE WORD AND THE WORLD The Use of Creatures: Allegory, the Literal Sense and the Contemplative Life P.Harrison Making Sense of Science and the Literal: Modern Semantics and Early Modern Hermeneutics J.D.Fleming Reading the Two Books with Francis Bacon: Interpreting God's Will and Power S.Matthews Textual Criticism and Early Modern Natural Philosophy: The Case of Ma…
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science ‐ by Claire Preston
Of the Nature and Use of Lots
Hanging up Kings
While "religion" as an ecclesiastical, institutional, and doctrinal phenomenon in seventeenth-century England has been subject to intensive scrutiny, the language of scriptural thinking remains a blind-spot to scholarship. One example of the inattention to the Bible as a working currency of political thought in the seventeenth century is the widespread notion of the English regicide as unprecedented and unthinkable in the early modern mind before…
Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned
The Oxford edition of the sermons of John Donne. Volume III
The Oxford edition of the sermons of John Donne. Volume III: Sermons at the court of Charles I, edited by David Colclough, general editor Peter McCullough, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, lv + 521 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19956548-1This first of the 16 volumes that will form The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne inaugurates what looks to be a splendid series, bold and brilliant in design, impeccably annotated and dizzy…
The Mosaic Constitution
Graham L. Hammill. The Mosaic Constitution: Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii + 328 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-31542-3. - Volume 67 Issue 2
‘A king like other nations’
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700
The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to preacher, from the 'boy that driveth the plough', famously invo…
The Political Bible in Early Modern England
This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptura…
Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550–1700
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Bible in Early Modern England
Unknowable in Early Modern Thought
The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought
Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality. Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought ex…
Guidelines for authors
This study examines the impact of the poem’s descriptive passages on internal and external spectators, and their efficiency in implementing Gawain’s moral itinerary, which is also accessible, indeed intended, for the poem’s audience. The aim is to demonstrate the transformative power of a visual journey endowed with a moral purpose, where the spectacular is never dissociated from the specular; where all visions, whether perceptual or mental, lead…
End Pages
This study examines the impact of the poem’s descriptive passages on internal and external spectators, and their efficiency in implementing Gawain’s moral itinerary, which is also accessible, indeed intended, for the poem’s audience. The aim is to demonstrate the transformative power of a visual journey endowed with a moral purpose, where the spectacular is never dissociated from the specular; where all visions, whether perceptual or mental, lead…
Error, Sprawl and Epistemological Poise in Thomas Browne
The outrageous inner lives of plants
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