Holy living and Holy dying / Jeremy Taylor ; edited by P.G. Stanwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.

Contributor:

Stanwood, P. G.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford English texts

Oxford English texts.

Standardized Title:

Rule and exercises of holy living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Anglican authors--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Death--Religious aspects--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Death.

Death--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Christian life--Anglican authors.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1989]

Summary:

Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying are two of the most famous prose works of 17th-century English literature and among the greatest examples of Anglican spirituality. These new editions are the first critically edited and fully annotated editions to appear since 1842. The text is based on the first editions of 1650 and 1651 and includes textual variants, a full commentary, a textual introduction, and a general introduction recounting Taylor's life and the intellectual background of his devotional classics.

Contents:

v. 1. Holy living

v. 2. Holy dying.

Notes:

Originally published under titles: The rule and exercises of holy living (1650) and The rule and exercises of holy dying.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Rule and exercises of holy dying. 1988.

ISBN:

0198127057

0198123493

OCLC:

17413332