People and Piety : Protestant Devotional Identities in Early Modern England (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Studies)

Clarke, Elizabeth (EDT)/ Daniel, Robert W. (EDT)

Manchester University Press（2025/01発売）

Manchester University Press（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526182609
• DDC分類 820.9382

Full Description

This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the 'sites' where these identities were forged - the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison - and the 'types' of texts that expressed them - spiritual autobiographies, religious poetry and writings tied to the ars moriendi - providing a broad analysis of social, material and literary forms of devotion during England's Long Reformation. Through archival and cutting-edge research, a detailed picture of 'lived religion' emerges, which re-evaluates the pietistic acts and attitudes of well-known and recently discovered figures. To those studying and teaching religion and identity in early modern England, and anyone interested in the history of religious self-expression, these chapters offer a rich and rewarding read.

Contents

Foreword - John Coffey
Introduction - Elizabeth Clarke and Robert W. Daniel

SECTION I: SITES
Part I: Devotional identities in religious communities
1 What was devotional writing? Re-visiting the community at Little Gidding, 1626-33 - David Manning
2 'HERSCHEPT HET HERT': Katherine Sutton's Experiences (1663), the printer's device and the making of devotion - Michael Durrant

Part II: Devotional identities in the household
3 'A soul preaching to itself': sermon note-taking and family piety - Ann Hughes
4 The Act of Toleration, household worship and voicing dissent: Oliver Heywood's A Family Altar (1693) - William J. Sheils

Part III: Devotional identities in the theatre
5 Devotional identity and the mother's legacy in A Warning for Fair Women (1599) - Iman Sheeha
6 Devotion, marriage, and mirth in The Puritan Widow (1607) - Robert O. Yates

Part IV: Devotional identities in the prison
7 'O this dark dungeon!': murderers, martyrs and the 'sacred space' of the early modern prison - Lynn Robson
8 Editing devotional identity: the compilation and reception of the prison prose of George Fox's Journal (1694) - Catie Gill

SECTION II: TYPES
Part V: Devotional identities in spiritual autobiographies
9 Fathers and sons, conscience and duty in early modern England - Bernard Capp
10 Dissenting devotion and identity in The Experience of Mary Franklin (d. 1711) - Vera J. Camden

Part VI: Devotional identities in religious poetry
11 Loyalist and dissenting responses to George Herbert's The Temple (1633) in the devotional writing of the 1640s-50s - Jenna Townend
12 'Whom I never knew to Poetrize but now': grief and passion in the devotional poetry of Richard Baxter - Sylvia Brown

Part VII: Devotional identities in the ars moriendi
13 'My sick-bed covenants': scriptural patterns and model piety in the early modern sickchamber - Robert W. Daniel
14 'Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle': deathbed narratives and devotional identities in the early seventeenth century - Charles Green

Afterword - N. H. Keeble
Index