Kristin M.S. Bezio - Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Scotland, and Wales, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the social and economic markets. Within the volume, the authors address first spiritual markets and marketplaces, discussing the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part addresses material marketplaces, including the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market. In the third part of the volume, the chapters focus specifically on publication markets and books, including manuscripts and commonplace books, as well as printed volumes and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, with analyses of plays and poems which engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets. Taken as a whole, this collection posits that the modern conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct, and the chapters demonstrate the depth to which both were integrated in early modern life.

Kristin M. S. Bezio is Associate Professor at the University of Richmond.

Scott Oldenburg specializes in early modern literature and culture at Tulane University.

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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Edited by Kristin M.S. Bezio and Scott Oldenburg

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We are grateful for the support of the University of Richmond and Tulane University, for the assistance of Max Novick and our editors at Routledge, Cassie Price, Katherine Rockwell, and Meredith Johnson for their aid in editing citations, and the patience and dedication of all our contributors despite the vagaries and unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kristin M. S. Bezio is an associate professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Her background is in theater and early modern drama, and her publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart History Plays (2015), Munday I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye: The Politics of Anthony Munday, from Anti-Catholic Spy to Civic Pageanteer (15791630), in tudes Anglaises (2018), and the edited volume William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites with Anthony Presti Russell (2021).

Emily Griffiths Jones is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida, specializing in the literature of early modern England. She is the author of Right Romance: Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England (Penn State University Press, 2019) and has published on Cavendish, Milton, Shakespeare, Lucy Hutchinson, and others.

Alison Harper is a PhD candidate studying at the University of Rochester. Her research largely focuses on late medieval English miscellanies, the role of the medieval reader in navigating and reshaping the text, and the reception of medieval Catholicism in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. She is currently writing a dissertation on two particularly interesting miscellanies: Oxford, Balliol College MS 354 and Lambeth Palace Library, MS 306, which contain many varied uses of religious texts by London readers during the Henrician Reformation. Her work has also led to the creation of a digital archive of miscellany texts, which she hopes will be live early next year. At present, she is teaching and residing in London.

Sarah Johanesen completed her PhD on the politicization of Catholic material culture in post-Reformation England at Kings College London in 2020. Her article, That silken Priest: Catholic Disguise and Anti-popery on the English Mission (15691640), won the IHRs Sir John Neale Prize in Early Modern British History (2019).

Ritchie D. Kendall earned his BA from Yale University (1973) and his MA and PhD from Harvard University (1975, 1980). He began his teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and continued there until his retirement as Associate Professor Emeritus in 2019. He won the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2001 and served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, and Assistant Chair in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. For the last 15 years at Chapel Hill, he helped head the universitys prestigious honors program, Honors Carolina, as Assistant Dean overseeing academic programing and admissions. He was the founding Faculty Director for the programs Honors Semester in London in 1989 and served as Faculty Director three more times, most recently in 2017. His first book,