Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an un

This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

The Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There h

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

The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical