At once pervasive and marginal, appealing and repellent, exemplary and atypical, the women of the Bible provoke an assortment of readings across early modern li

This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bible was rea

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing

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 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