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Zusatztext Reading a book such as this in its entirety is a rare pleasure ... this book provides a more nuanced and better grounded understanding of cultural and religious transformations in early modern England. Informationen zum Autor Kevin Killeen in Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of York. He has edited Sir Thomas Browne: 21st Century Authors (OUP, 2014), and is author of Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2009; winner of the CCUE Book Prize, 2010) and co-editor, with Peter Forshaw, of Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era (Palgrave, 2007). He is currently completing a monograph entitled 'The Political Bible in Early Modern England' and is editing two volumes for The Oxford Works of Sir Thomas Browne.Helen Smith is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. She is author of Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England (OUP, 2012; winner of the SHARP DeLong Book History Prize, 2013, and the Roland H. Bainton Literature Prize, 2013), and co-editor, with Louise Wilson, of Renaissance Paratexts (CUP, 2011). Helen is PI on the AHRC research network, 'Imagining Jerusalem, c. 1099 to the Present Day'. She is currently co-editing, with Simon Ditchfield, 'Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe', and completing a monograph on early modern ideas of matter and their material expressions.Rachel Willie is Lecturer in English at Bangor University. She is author of Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-1672 (Manchester University Press). She has published on Milton, Charles I and martyrological discourse, and print and publishing in the nascent public sphere. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, 1530-1700 is an indispensable guide to the most important book in early modern England, exploring how the scriptures served as a generative motor for ideas and a resource for creative and political thought, as well as for domestic and devotional life. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, 1530-1700 is an indispensable guide to the most important book in early modern England, exploring how the scriptures served as a generative motor for ideas and a resource for creative and political thought, as well as for domestic and devotional life....
