Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons Henry Smith's a Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately's a Bride-Bush (1623) |
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| Editor:
| Matz, Robert |
| Series title: | The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-351-87718-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $56.95 |
Book Description:
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This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English Reformation. Read in their entirety these sermons, by turns engaging and infuriating, resist easy characterization. The introduction provides biblical, theological, political and discursive...
More DescriptionThis critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English Reformation. Read in their entirety these sermons, by turns engaging and infuriating, resist easy characterization. The introduction provides biblical, theological, political and discursive contexts for the sermons.