By Ian Green
This is often the 1st research of the complete diversity of Protestant courses from the Reformation to the beginning of the Evangelical Revival. in response to a pattern of over 700 best-selling titles of the interval, it demonstrates a fast diversification of the spiritual works published and of the readerships at which they have been distinct via canny publishers, and in addition highlights the becoming number of ''Protestantisms'' then on supply.
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Vii. See below, pp. –; and Green, Christian’s ABC, , –, –. For an example, see below, p. n. . , –; Green, Christian’s ABC, , –, , , , –, –; and R. Sharrock, ‘ “When at the first I took my pen in hand”: Bunyan and the Book’, in N. ), John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus. Tercentenary Essays (Oxford, ), –; for authors’ dealings with publishers, see also Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, ed. N. H. Keeble and G. F. , Oxford, ), § , , , , , , , and below, n.
Indeed, in many genres they made much greater use of it. One could easily prove the point with statistics, though to do so is to risk being trapped in a sheep-and-goats approach to religious history. For if we devote more attention to the kind of didactic and edifying works which sold steadily for decades, we find regular overlaps in aims, content, and technique, and little evidence of a clear divide along party lines. Moreover, in This comment is based on the backgrounds and authors of works discussed below in Chs.
Ii below; on liturgies and homilies, see J. E. Booty, D. Siegenthaler, and J. N. , The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation (), –, –. That having been said, there were still some cases of prompting from above, and the relationship between author and patron could remain close. Jeremy Taylor, for example, become chaplain to Frances, Lady Carbery, after he had lost his posts during the first civil war, and she actively encouraged him to write and publish.