Humanities & Social Sciences

The pastor in print

Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England

by Amy G. Tan

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The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.

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The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors. Addressing the ways print could enhance, limit, or change pastoral ministry, the book demonstrates how ministers strategically tailored their content to achieve their religious goals among different audiences and in view of their position vis-à-vis the institutional church. Along with an extended case study of Richard Bernard - a particularly prolific pastor-author whose career provides a coherent framework through which to analyse key features of early modern pastoral-authorial work - the book addresses a number of early modern English pastors who pursued authorship as an intentional part of their religious vocation. The first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it provides a paradigm for understanding these clerics' efforts in print and parish as an integral part of their careers and their overarching religious goals. By addressing pastor-authors' works across a career and in diverse genres, the book engages multiple issues of current scholarly interest: censorship, private religious devotion, polemic, witchcraft, religious education, reference works, and more. As such, it provides a remarkably comprehensive picture of pastoral publishing and offers a new lens through which to view the intersection of emerging print technologies, the printing industry, and clerical work in this pivotal period.

Author Biography

Amy G. Tan is an independent scholar. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2015.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date May 2022
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781526152206 / 1526152207
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPrint PDF
  • Pages288
  • ReadershipGeneral/trade
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions234 X 156 mm
  • Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 5211
  • SeriesPolitics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
  • Reference Code13246

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