The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early
modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and
suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode
on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately
related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to
daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to
preacher, from the 'boy that driveth the plough', famously invoked
by Tyndale, to women across the social scale. It circulated in
texts ranging from elaborate folios to cheap catechisms; it was
mediated in numerous forms, as pictures, songs, and embroideries,
and as proverbs, commonplaces, and quotations. Bringing together
leading scholars from a range of fields, The Oxford Handbook of the
Bible in Early Modern England, 1530-1700 explores how the
scriptures served as a generative motor for ideas, and a resource
for creative and political thought, as well as for domestic and
devotional life. Sections tackle the knotty issues of translation,
the rich range of early modern biblical scholarship, Bible
dissemination and circulation, the changing political uses of the
Bible, literary appropriations and responses, and the reception of
the text across a range of contexts and media. Where existing
scholarship focuses, typically, on Tyndale and the King James Bible
of 1611, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in England, 1530-1700
goes further, tracing the vibrant and shifting landscape of
biblical culture in the two centuries following the Reformation.
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