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"He took his religion by trust": The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion

Author(s) -

James P. Crowley

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

renaissance and reformation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2293-7374

pISSN - 0034-429X

DOI - 10.33137/rr.v34i1.10848

Subject(s) - imprisonment , biography , context (archaeology) , history , religious studies , law , literature , classics , criminology , philosophy , sociology , art , political science , archaeology

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 Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence of the importance Jonson placed on codified religion, and provide a distinctly religious context for much of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.

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