Afterword / N.H. Keeble. Part VII: Devotional identities in the ars moriendi -- Part I: Devotional identities in religious communities -- What was devotional writing? Revisiting the community in Little Gidding, 1626-33 / David Manning -- '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 -- 'A soul preaching to itself': sermon note-taking and family piety / Ann Hughes -- The Act of Toleration, household worship and voicing dissent: Oliver Heywood's A Family Alter (1693) / William J. Sheils -- Part III: Devotional identities in the theatre -- Devotional identity and the mother's legacy in A Warning for Fair Women (1599) / Iman Sheena -- Devotion, marriage and mirth in The Puritan Widow / Robert O. Yates -- Part IV: Devotional identities in the prison -- 'O this dark dungeon!': murderers, martyrs and the 'sacred space' of the early modern prison / Lynn Robson -- Editing devotional identity: the compiliation and reception of the prison prose of George Fox's Journal (1694) / Catie Gill -- Section II: Types -- Part V: Devotional identities in spiritual autobiographies -- Fathers and sons, conscience, and duty in early modern England / Bernard Capp -- Dissenting devotion and identity in The Experience of Mary Franklin (d.1711) / Vera J. Camden -- Part VI: Devotional identities in religious poetry -- Loyalist and dissenting responses to George Herbert's The Temple (1633) in the devotional writing of the 1640s-50s / Jenna Townend -- '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 -- 'My sick-bed covenants': scriptural patterns and model piety in the early modern sickchamber / Robert W. Daniel -- 'Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle': deathbed narratives and devotional identities in the early seventeenth century / Charles Green -- Afterword / N.H. Keeble.
Summary:
"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." --From publisher's description.
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