02926oam 2200649I 450 991046540350332120200520144314.01-317-17443-71-315-56930-21-317-17442-91-4094-4168-710.4324/9781315569307 (CKB)2560000000090186(EBL)985852(OCoLC)806291556(SSID)ssj0000703622(PQKBManifestationID)12314682(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703622(PQKBWorkID)10692107(PQKB)11018105(MiAaPQ)EBC985852(MiAaPQ)EBC5207871(Au-PeEL)EBL5207871(CaPaEBR)ebr11489908(OCoLC)1018147650(OCoLC)950470978(EXLCZ)99256000000009018620180706e20162012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBible readers and lay writers in early modern England gender and self-definition in an emergent writing culture /Kate NarvesonLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (246 p.)Material Readings in Early Modern CultureFirst published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.1-4094-4167-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Reading the Bible: clerical prescriptions and lay reading practices -- The emergence of lay composition -- Application to the self : reading and the restructuring of identity -- Recording identity: scripturalist devotion among ordinary layfolk -- Discursive horizons and the question of gender -- The devotional page and the schoolroom of print -- Grace Mildmay's meditations: love letters from God and their Scriptural authorization.Analysing print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this volume studies how lay immersion in the Bible gave rise to a non-professional writing culture. Narveson examines the development of that culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender and the emergence of writing as a key practice of lay devotion. She also explores the attendant clerical anxiety, as layfolk assumed control of their spiritual self-definition.Material readings in early modern culture.Spiritual journalsAuthorshipEnglandChurch history16th centuryEnglandChurch history17th centuryElectronic books.Spiritual journalsAuthorship.274.2/06Narveson Kate.877583MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465403503321Bible readers and lay writers in early modern England1959639UNINA