People and piety : protestant devotional identities in early modern England / edited by Elizabeth Clarke and Robert W. Daniel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Elizabeth, 1954- editor.

Daniel, Robert W., editor.

Series:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature, English--England--History and criticism.

Devotional literature, English.

Protestantism--England--History--17th century.

Protestantism.

Protestantism--England--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 293 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This compelling collection examines the 'lived devotion' of men and women in England's Long Reformation. Through cutting-edge research, fourteen chapters explore how English piety was at once segregational and social, fixed in principle yet fluid in practice, and where authors worked out their faith in painstaking and sometimes painful ways.

Contents:

Foreword / John Coffey

Introduction: People and Piety: Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript in Early Modern England / Elizabeth Clarke and Robert W. Daniel

SECTION I: SITES

PART I: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES

1. Devotional Writing as Practical Divinity: A Case Study of the Community at Little Gidding / David Manning

2. Henry Hills and <i>The Prodigal Returned</i> (1651): Seventeenth-Century Print and the Unmaking of Devotion / Michael Durrant

PART II: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN THE HOUSEHOLD

3. Conscience, Conversion and Conformity: Religion and Domestic Conflict / Bernard Capp

4. 'A soul preaching to itself': Sermon Note-Taking and Family Piety / Ann Hughes

PART III: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN THE THEATRE

5. 'Behold my children, I will not bequeath/ Or gold or silver to you... But here I give to each of you a book/ Of holy meditations, Bradford's works:' Devotional Writing as a Player in the Theatre of Punishment in <i>A Warning for Fair Women</i> (1599) / Iman Sheeha

6. Remarry the widow: 'A device well managed' in <i>The Puritan Widow </i>(1607) / Robert O Yates

PART IV: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN PRISON

7. 'O this dark dungeon!': Prisons, Sacred Space and the Devotions of Early Modern Murderers / Lynn Robson

8 'For the Truth... and Good Conscience': The Devotional Polemics of Quaker Prison Writing / Catie Gill

SECTION II: TYPES PART V: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN SELF-WRITING

9. 'My condition is a most miserable one': Sorrow, Devotion and Self-Writing in 1630s England / Helen Wilcox

10. Sarah Savage's Devotional Writings (1686-87) and Dissenting Identity / Rachel Adcock

PART VI: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN POETRY

11. Loyalist and Dissenting Responses to George Herbert's <i>The Temple</i> in the Devotional Writing of the English Civil Wars / Jenna Townend

12. 'whom I never knew to Poetize but now that tender love and passion taught him': The Printed Poetry of Richard Baxter / Sylvia Brown

PART VII: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN DOMESTIC TESTIMONIES

13. The Act of Toleration, Household Worship and Voicing Dissent: Oliver Heywood's <i>The Family Altar</i> (1693) / William J. Sheils

14. The Price of Piety in <i>The</i> <i>Experiences</i> of Mrs. Mary Franklin / Vera J. Camden

PART VII: DEVOTIONAL WRITING IN THE ARS MORIENDI

15 'My sick-bed covenants': Scriptural Patterns and Model Patients in the Sickness Narratives of Seventeenth-Century England / Robert W. Daniel

16. The Deathbed Narrative in the Early Seventeenth-Century: Performance, Print and the Polemics of Dying / Charles Green

Afterword

N. H. Keeble.

Notes:

Full-text access granted as courtesy of MUP during COVID-19 emergency.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 4, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-5013-1

OCLC:

1202852316