Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

Alec Ryrie, Jessica Martin, Professor Euan Cameron , Professor Bruce Gordon

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Routledge
17 September 2012

Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; History of religion; Church history

Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Scholars increasingly recognise that understanding the history of religion means understanding worship and devotion as well as doctrines and polemics. Early modern Christianity consisted of its lived experience. This collection and its companion volume (Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, ed. Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie) bring together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to discuss what that lived experience comprised, and what it meant.

Private and domestic devotion - how early modern men and women practised their religion when they were not in church - is a vital and largely hidden subject. Here, historical, literary and theological scholars examine piety of conformist, non-conformist and Catholic early modern Christians, in a range of private and domestic settings, in both England and Scotland. The subjects under analysis include Bible-reading, the composition of prayers, the use of the psalms, the use of physical props for prayers, the pious interpretation of dreams, and the troubling question of what counted as religious solitude. The collection as a whole broadens and deepens our understanding of the patterns of early modern devotion, and of their meanings for early modern culture as a whole.

By: Alec Ryrie
Edited by: Jessica Martin
Series edited by: Professor Euan Cameron, Professor Bruce Gordon, Dr. Bridget Heal
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781409431312
ISBN 10: 1409431312
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 17 September 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jessica Martin is priest-in-charge of the Cambridgeshire parishes of Duxford, Hinxton and Ickleton, and a former Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University Jessica Martin, Alec Ryrie, Ian Green, Jane E.A. Dawson, Erica Longfellow, Micheline White, Tara Hamling, Kate Narveson, Jeremy Schildt, Hannibal Hamlin, Beth Quitslund, Alison Shell.

Reviews for Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

'... the editors are to be congratulated on a collection of essays that combine to form a thorough reassessment of the relationship between private devotion and the public liturgy.' History 'In aggregate, these essays offer some intriguing insights into the subject matter.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This is an excellent and illuminating collection that not only deepens our understanding of lived religion in Protestant England and Scotland; it also showcases some of the innovative new directions and methodologies employed by those studying early-modern religious cultures.' Catholic Historical Review '... this is an invaluable collection for enhancing our knowledge of a whole range of domestic pious practices, and of 'private' devotion more generally ... with this rich and wide-ranging volume we know a lot more about domestic devotion than we did before.' English Historical Review '...their willingness to go beyond the printed sources to mine personal letters, commonplace books and other manuscript sources makes this an especially valuable study.' Anaphora