English Bible in the Early Modern World

Robert Armstrong (PhD 1996, University of Dublin) is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, where he is Associate Professor in History, with a particular interest in the religious and political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland and Britain. Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (PhD 1995 EUI) is Professor of Early Modern History in University College Dublin and Head of School of History 2014-17. His chief research interests concern the movement of Catholic Renewal in Early Modern Europe.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsContributors1 Introduction: Protestant England and the English BibleRobert Armstrong2 ‘So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages’: Religious Imagery and Bible LearningLucy Wooding3 The Laity and the Bible in Early Modern EnglandIan Green4 Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical TextsMary Morrissey5 Early Modern Catholic Perspectives on the Biblical Text: The Bellarmine and Whitaker DebateTadhg Ó hAnnracháin6 The Catholic Contribution to the King James BibleGordon Campbell7 Bible Reading, Puritan Devotion, and the Transformation of Politics in the English RevolutionCrawford Gribben8 ‘Not the Word of God’: Varieties of Antiscripturism during the English RevolutionAriel Hessayon9 ‘Syllables governe the world’: Biblical Criticism, Erudition, Heterodoxy and Thomas HobbesJustin ChampionIndex