Bible readers and lay writers in early modern England
Subtitle: gender and religious self-definition in an emergent writing culture
By: by Kate Narveson
Series: Material readings in early modern culture
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781409441670; 9781409441687
Subjects: Spiritual journals; Identification (Religion); History and criticism; English Christian literature; Bible; Church history; Authorship; Devotional use; Reading; Gender identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.          ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading the Bible: clerical prescriptions and lay reading practices; title: The emergence of lay composition; title: Application to the self : reading and the restructuring of identity; title: Recording identity: scripturalist devotion among ordinary layfolk; title: Discursive horizons and the question of gender; title: The devotional page and the schoolroom of print; title: Grace Mildmay's meditations: love letters from God and their Scriptural authorization.