Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters

The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters__.__ This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness. Front Matter Contents Dedication Notes on contributors Introduction: Contentious communion Part I Thinking beyond borders: War and peace The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: Experiences of the tragic and historiographical genres in Edward Herbert and George Herbert The Thirty Years’ War and George Herbert’s communion, an answer to violence “Being” James I: Herbert of Cherbury’s vexed diplomacy Ceremony and self: Belligerent civility in Edward Herbert’s Autobiography Part II Reconsidering conformity, community, and universality “Gerson, a Spirituall Man”: Herbert and the University of Paris’s reformist chancellor Conformity and consent in Herbert of Cherbury “Devout humanism” and its problems: George Herbert and François de Sales George Herbert’s The Country Parson and John Calvin’s pastoral advice Edward Herbert’s The Amazon and De Veritate Part III The voices of transnational communities: From conversation to song Edward Herbert within the fellowship of gentlemen plain speakers “The little World the Great shall blaze”: Edward Herbert, Thomas Carew, Giambattista Marino, and the poetics of embassy George Herbert and three French Protestant poets (Chandieu, Grévin, Sponde) Becoming “a Citizen of the world”: Edward Herbert and continental music-making “Sweet Singers of our Israel”: French psalmody, the Sidneys, and George Herbert Bibliography Index The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593-1633) and Edward Herbert (1583-1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness. -- .