Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture

Abstract

Contents: Introduction: recovering lay writing in divinity Part 1: From Reading Skills to Writing Practices 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 Part 2: The Registration of Gender Discursive horizons and the question of gender The devotional page and the schoolroom of print Grace Mildmaya (TM)s meditations: love letters from God and their scriptural authorization Conclusion: lay scriptural devotion stakes its claim Bibliography Index.

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