"He took his religion by trust"
The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16346285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James P Crowley (0000-0002-5731-6773, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-70 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v34i1.10848 |
| OpenAlex | W2462703207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence of the importance Jonson placed on codified religion, and provide a distinctly religious context for much of what has long been assumed to be an exclusively classically-based secular ethics operating in his writing
Archaeology · Art · Biography · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Imprisonment · Literature · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |