Table of Contents

Part One. The Religious History of Early Modern Britain: Forms, Practices, Beliefs
1: Stephen Kelly: The Pre-Reformation Landscape
2: David Bagchi: The Henrician Reform
3: John N. King: Religious Change in the Mid-Tudor Period
4: Torrance Kirby: The Elizabethan Church of England and the origins of Anglicanism
5: Charles W. A. Prior: Early Stuart Controversy: Church, State and the Sacred
6: Jacqueline Eales: Religion in times of War and Republic, 1642-1660
7: Grant Tapsell: Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts
Part Two. Literary Genres for the Expression of Faith
8: Rachel Willie: Translation
9: Erica Longfellow: Prayer and Prophecy
10: Elizabeth Clarke and Simon Jackson: Lyric Poetry
11: Adrian Streete: Drama
12: Jeanne Shami: Sermons
13: Kate Hodgkin: Autobiographical Writings
14: Anne Lake Prescott: Satire and Polemic
15: Jan Bloemendal: Neo-Latin Writings and Religion
Part Three. Religion and the Early Modern Writer
16: Andrew Hiscock: 'What England has to offer': Erasmus, Colet, More and their Circle
17: Mike Pincombe and Gavin Schwarz-Leeper: John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants
18: Elizabeth Heale: Edmund Spenser
19: Lisa Hopkins: Christopher Marlowe and Religion
20: Nandra Perry and Robert E. Stillman: Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert: Piety and Poetry
21: Hugh Adlington: John Donne
22: Robert Wilche: Lucy Hutchinson
23: Catherine Gimelli Martin: John Milton
Part Four. Interpretative Communities
24: Suzanne Trill: Lay Households
25: Nicky Hallett: Female Religious Houses
26: Johanna Harris: Sectarian Groups
27: Catie Gill: Quakers
28: Alison Searle: Exiles at Home
29: Jaime Goodrich: Exiles Abroad
30: Jeffrey Shoulson: The Jewish Diaspora
31: Bernadette Andrea: Islamic Communities
32: Christopher Hodgkins: Settlers in New Worlds
Part Five. Early Modern Religious Life: Debates and Issues
33: Hannibal Hamlin: The Bible
34: Timothy Rosendale: Authority, Religion and the State
35: Bronwen Price: 'Finding the genuine light of nature': Religion and Science
36: Margaret J. M. Ezell: Body and Soul
37: Helen Wilcox: Sacred and Secular Love: 'I will lament, and love'
38: Peter Carlson: The Art and Craft of Dying
39: P.G. Stanwood: Sin, Judgment and Eternity
Appendix
Jesse David Sharpe: Resources: A Beginner's Guide
List of Abbreviations

About the Author

Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association and a Fellow of the English Association. He is English literature editor of the journal MLR, series editor of The Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor of Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. He is a former AHRC research fellow
and is a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightement at Montpellier 3 University. His most recent monograph is entitled Reading Memory in Early
Modern Literature. Helen Wilcox is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. She has published extensively on early modern English literature, particularly devotional poetry, women's writing, Shakespeare, early autobiography, and the relationships between literature and religion, music, and the visual arts. Her publications include Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (Routledge, 1989), the acclaimed annotated edition of
The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge, 2007) and 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). She has been a visiting professor in Singapore, Spain, and the USA., and is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association, and the Learned Society of Wales.

Reviews

Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox have organized and edited a volume indispensable for all future research in early modern English cultural and historical perspectives on religious and literary studies.
*William E. Engel, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 37383 USA, Religious Studies Review*

...impressive and wide-ranging
*Harriet Archer, The English Association*

[The Handbook's] opening chronology of key events in political and religious history alongside those of the literary history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provides a helpful orientation for students in particular.
*David Parry, The Glass*

a work of considerable substance, offering its own richness and depth of thought at the same time that it insistently beckons readers into wider conversations. With thirty-nine essays, the volume furnishes students of the period with many possible points of entry, while the essays themselves present innumerable trajectories for further investigation. Lastly, in an appendix Jesse David Sharpe provides a primer on research methods that supplies useful guidance to those beginning such journeys.
*James Ross Macdonald, Modern Language Review*

offers fresh interpretations of a host of topics springing from an incredibly fecund era of religious reflection in English literature, the 16th and 17th centuries ... Of uniformly high quality, the essays are diverse in terms of methodology and approach.
*S. Gowler, CHOICE*

The two editors, Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox, should be congratulated for having devised a strategy to explore and present the relevant issues that is as rigorous as it is effective. This book will be an indispensable reference for all good literature or religion libraries.
*Commentaire [translated from French]*

This is a distinguished volume ... and a great deal of first class scholarship, and its editors are to be congratulated on their work in bringing it all together. A brief review can barely do it justice, and it deserves to be widely used and read.
*David Jasper, Journal of Anglican Studies*