Religion and Life Cycles in Early Modern England - (Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Studies) (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England <i>c</i>. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experiences of biological, social and religious life stages, it suggests new ways of framing the multiple, overlapping life cycles that early modern individuals experienced.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Religion and life cycles in early modern England</i> assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period <i>c</i>. 1550-1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Religion and life cycles in early modern England</i> examines intersections between religion and all stages of the life course. It considers rites of passage such as birth, death and marriage, and investigates everyday experiences such as attending school and church, going to work, praying, writing letters and singing hymns. Setting examples from different contexts alongside each other, it traces how different confessions were affected by the religious and political changes that occurred in the two centuries following the Reformation. The book is structured around three phases: 'Birth, childhood and youth', 'Adulthood and everyday life', 'The dying and the dead'. It follows the threads of the bodily and social life cycles to reveal how they interweave with the religious life cycle: converting to a new religion, joining the ministry or a convent. Early modern individuals often reflected on times they personally acknowledged to have transformed their life or on events that instigated their spiritual awakening. Drawing on diaries, letters, plays, portraits, diagrams, sermons, poetry and hymns, the book demonstrates the existence of multiple, overlapping understandings of the life cycle in early modern England.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Caroline Bowden is Senior Research Fellow in History at Queen Mary University of London Emily Vine is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London
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