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Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

Edited by

JESSICA MARTIN
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK

and

ALEC RYRIE
Durham University, UK

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Private and domestic devotion in early modern Britain.

(St Andrews studies in Reformation history)
1. Christian lifeGreat BritainHistory16th century.
2. Christian lifeGreat BritainHistory17th century.
I. Series II. Martin, Jessica, 1963 III. Ryrie, Alec.
248.46094109031dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Private and domestic devotion in early modern Britain / edited by Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie.

p. cm. (St. Andrews studies in Reformation history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3131-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-3156-0221-9 (ebook) 1. Great BritainChurch history. 2. Spiritual lifeChristianity. 3. Devotion. I. Martin, Jessica, 1963 II. Ryrie, Alec.

BR756.P755 2012
274.106dc23

2012007659

ISBN 9781409431312 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315602219 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781317075691 (ebk-ePUB)

Contents

Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie

Ian Green

Jane E.A. Dawson

Erica Longfellow

Alec Ryrie

Micheline White

Jessica Martin

Tara Hamling

Kate Narveson

Jeremy Schildt

Hannibal Hamlin

Beth Quitslund

Alison Shell

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Jane E.A. Dawson is the John Laing Professor of Reformation History at the University of Edinburgh.

Ian Green is Professor Emeritus of the Queens University of Belfast and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

Hannibal Hamlin is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University.

Tara Hamling is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham.

Erica Longfellow is Chaplain and Dean of Divinity at New College, Oxford.

Jessica Martin is priest-in-charge of the Cambridgeshire parishes of Duxford, Hinxton and Ickleton, and a former Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Kate Narveson is Associate Professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Beth Quitslund is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University.

Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University.

Jeremy Schildt is an independent scholar based in Norwich.

Alison Shell teaches in the English Department at University College, London and was formerly Professor of English at Durham University.

Micheline White is Associate Professor of English Literature at Carleton University, Ottawa.

List of Abbreviations

BL	British Library, London
BodL	Bodleian Library, Oxford
DWL	Dr Williamss Library, London
ESTC	English Short-Title Catalogue: http://estc.bl.uk
FSL	Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
ODNB	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
RSTC	W.A. Jackson, J.F. Ferguson and K.F. Pantzer (eds), A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad 14751640 (2nd edn: London, 198691)
Wing	Donald G. Wing (ed.), Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America 16411700 (2nd edn: New York, 1994)

INTRODUCTION
Private and Domestic Devotion

Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie

This is a book about how people in early modern England and Scotland prayed when they werent in church. Its contributors, drawn from a number of disciplines (history, literature, art history and material culture) look, therefore, at practices for which the evidence is often indirect. We are reliant on what people set down about a phenomenon always partially separate from record. We can deduce what people did from liturgical forms, diaries, advice, letters, directives; or from clues offered in the various textual productions of scripture; or from artefacts produced which assisted or depicted private worship.

That the practice itself was widespread is not in doubt. Men, women and children of every confessional variety accepted that public worship was only a part of the work of living to and for God. As with public worship, there was widespread disagreement about how private and domestic prayer should be done; but its settings were more flexible, usually less open to external regulation. For some this was an opportunity to tie together liturgical time and the time of ones life; for others the daily work of salvation began with the unique needs of a soul, praying through an engagement with scripture not dictated by the church year.

Within the Church of England, at any rate, these two sat together uneasily. Here is Daniel Featley, writing in the introduction to his bestselling 1626 prayer manual Ancilla Pietatis, attempting to square the circle between differing understandings of daily prayer. He has, himself, chosen the cyclical structure of the church year; this is how he defends his choice.

Remember, writes Featley, the worke of the day, on the day wherein it was wrought (sig. A10v). Even though repentance is the sacred jewell of every days devotion, the extra experiential charge of following the redemptive narrative as it is liturgically re-enacted adds to it an extra depth, an extra urgency:

Fast with him [Christ] on good-friday, as well as feast with him, and for him, on Easter day. If any teares of a sinner are the

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