Domesticating the Reformation: Protestant Best Sellers, Private Devotion, and the Revolution of English PietyFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 449 pages This book rescues three little-known bestsellers of the English Reformation and employs them in an examination of intellectual and religious revolution. How did sixteenth-century English Protestant manuals of private devotion - often to be read aloud - stream continental theology into the domestic contexts of parish, school, and home? Patterson elucidates ideological programs presented in key texts in light of evolving patterns of public and private worship; she also considers the processes of transmission by which complex doctrinal debates were packaged for cultivating an everyday piety in a confusing age of inflammatory, politicized religion. It is in the most prosaic challenges of daily realities, that the deepest opportunities lie for experiencing the divine. Intersecting issues of piety, rhetoric, and the devotional life of the home, this book brings to life reformists' endeavors to guide popular responses to the Protestant revolution itself. |
Contents
Introduction | 19 |
Domesticating the Reformation | 34 |
Print Reform and Tudor Cultures of Devotion | 44 |
THOMAS BECON AND THE SICK MANS SALVE | 79 |
Becon and the English Reformation | 81 |
Becons The Sick Mans Salve | 101 |
JOHN NORDENS A PENSIVE MANS PRACTICE | 155 |
Introduction to Nordens Prayer Manual | 157 |
Edward Dering and John Mores A Briefe And Necessary Instruction for Householders | 267 |
CONCLUSION | 291 |
Looking Through the Best Sellers at Religious Revolution from Afar Problems and Interpretations | 293 |
Appendix A Listing of Best Sellers Publications from the Short Title Catalogue | 319 |
Appendix B Opening Calendar and Tables in A Pensive Mans Practice | 321 |
Appendix C An Outline of the Dering Catechism | 324 |
Debates about Authorship Evolution of Versions | 325 |
Appendix E Searching for John Norden | 327 |
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