Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex

Matthew Dimmock is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. His work focuses on the field of cultural encounter and amongst other publications he is author of New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (2005) and Mythologies of Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture (2013) and editor of William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (2006). Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, Visiting Professor at the University of Granada and Vice-Chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies. He is the author of a number of books on the literature and culture of Early Modern England including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005) and Literature, Travel and Colonial Writing, 1540-1620 (1998). He is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook to Early Modern Prose, 1500-1640 (2013). Paul Quinn is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of English at the University of Sussex. His current research on the culture of Early Modern Sussex will culminate in a major exhibition in 2015. He has taught at the University of Chichester, Birkbeck College and at Oxford and his research interests include staged anti-Catholicism, intra-Protestant debate, and representations of martyrdom in popular texts.

• Contents: Introduction: contesting early modern Sussex, Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Paul Quinn; Elizabeth I’s progresses into Sussex, Caroline Adams; Two Sussex writers: Thomas Drant and Anthony Copley, Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield; Lambert Barnard, Bishop Shirborne’s ’paynter’, Karen Coke; Intellectual networks associated with Chichester Cathedral, c.1558-1700, Andrew Foster; ’This strange conglomerate of books’, or ’Hobbs’ Leviathan’: Bishop Henry King’s library at Chichester Cathedral, Daniel Starza Smith; ’Your daughter, most devoted’: the sententious writings of Mary Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk, given to the Twelfth Earl of Arundel, Elizabeth McCutcheon; ’The government of this church by Catholic bishops hath always been a strength and defence unto the kingdom’: episcopacy and the Catholic community in early 17th-century Sussex and beyond, Michael Questier; Richard Woodman, Sussex Protestantism and the construction of martyrdom, Paul Quinn; ’The happy preserver of his brother’s posterity’: from monumental text to sculptural figure in early modern Sussex, Nigel Llewellyn; Afterword: not the last word: scraps of history, Duncan Salkeld; Index.