List of Abbreviations viiList of Figures ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 11 Idealized Lives: Speak Nothing but Good of the Dead 112 Divine Social and Political Orders 313 Roles 594 Taming the Natural Child: Preparations for Living 815 Seeing the World Anew 976 Reimagining England's Past 1257 Living Under Divine Providence 1498 Personal Virtue 1719 Moral Economies 20110 Creating the Godly State 23511 A Generation of Hearers 25312 Elizabethan Lives Lived 281Primary Bibliography 305Secondary Bibliography 325Index 335