This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their s

Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that

This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.