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 Enlightenment 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.

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.

• 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

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 Enlightenment 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.

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.

• 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

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 Enlightenment 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.

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.

• 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