Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie

Why, and in what ways, did late medieval and early modern English people write about themselves, and what was their understanding of how "selves" were made and

Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sha

This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A br

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