John Donne Context
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- Created on: 11-12-20 09:10
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- Donne Context
- Early life
- born in 1572 to a family of devout catholics
- studied at Oxford Uni
- wrote poems in Latin and English
- travelled on the continent
- joined Earl of Essex expedition to Cadiz Islands
- Later life
- Donne secretly married in 1601
- he was imprisoned by her father
- he was a member of parliament and a diplomat
- he was a very successful priest
- he became the Dean at St Paul's cathedral
- post marriage his wealth was in tatters - he made his family around the country and Italy + France
- Donne secretly married in 1601
- The church
- Reformation of the Catholic church
- 1517
- Protestants rejected degrees of sacramental nature of marriage
- split from Catholicism to Protestantism
- Sanctity of marriage
- Henry VIII annulment for his marriage not granted therefore in need for reformation
- Reformation of the Catholic church
- Carnal Knowledge
- laws controlled sex in the 16th century
- religious upheavals tightened the regime and added punishments
- demonstrates that sexual behaviour was strictly regulated
- this was the case even before the reformation
- saw illicit sex as a danger to public order
- this was the case even before the reformation
- the court concerned itself with prostitution
- also concerns around pre- and extra-marital sex
- laws controlled sex in the 16th century
- Early life
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