This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the sites where these identities were forged the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison and the types of texts that expressed them spiritual autobiographies, religious poetry and writings tied to thears moriendi providing a broad analysis of social, material and literary forms of devotion during Englands Long Reformation. Through archival and cutting-edge research, a detailed picture of lived religion emerges, which re-evaluates the pietistic acts and attitudes of well-known and recently discovered figures. To those studying and teaching religion and identity in early modern England, and anyone interested in the history of religious self-expression, these chapters offer a rich and rewarding read.

Elizabeth Clarke is Professor Emeritus in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of WarwickRobert W. Daniel is Associate Tutor in English at the University of Warwick

Foreword John CoffeyIntroduction Elizabeth Clarke and Robert W. DanielSECTION I: SITESPart I: Devotional identities in religious communities1 What was devotional writing? Re-visiting the community at Little Gidding, 162633 David Manning2 HERSCHEPT HET HERT: Katherine SuttonsExperiences (1663), the printers device and the making of devotion Michael DurrantPart II: Devotional identities in the household3 A soul preaching to itself: sermon note-taking and family piety Ann Hughes4 The Act of Toleration, household worship and voicing dissent: Oliver HeywoodsA Family Altar (1693) William J. SheilsPart III: Devotional identities in the theatre5 Devotional identity and the mothers legacy inA Warning for Fair Women (1599) Iman Sheeha6 Devotion, marriage, and mirth inThe Puritan Widow (1607) Robert O. YatesPart IV: Devotional identities in the prison7 O this dark dungeon!: murderers, martyrs and the sacred space of the early modern prison Lynn Robson8 Editing devotional identity: the compilation and reception of the prison prose of George FoxsJournal (1694) Catie GillSECTION II: TYPESPart V: Devotional identities in spiritual autobiographies9 Fathers and sons, conscience and duty in early modern England Bernard Capp10 Dissenting devotion and identity inThe Experience of Mary Franklin (d. 1711) Vera J. CamdenPart VI: Devotional identities in religious poetry11 Loyalist and dissenting responses to George HerbertsThe Temple(1633) in the devotional writing of the 1640s50s Jenna Townend12 Whom I never knew to Poetrize but now: grief and passion in the devotional poetry of Richard Baxter Sylvia BrownPart VII: Devotional identities in thears moriendi13 My sick-bed covenants: scriptural patterns and model piety in the early modern sickchamber Robert W. Daniel14 Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle: deathbed narratives and devotional identities in the early seventeenth century Charles Green Afterword N. H. KeebleIndex