Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

ISBN-13: 9780367502317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 258 str.

Kristin M. S. Bezio; Scott Oldenburg

Opis

This book explores the intersection between geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. It presents religion as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the socioeconomic markets of England, Scotland, and Wales.

Spis treści

Introduction: Church, Coin, and Custom: Religious Conflict and the Marketplace  Kristin M.S. Bezio  Part 1: Spiritual Marketplaces  1. A Puritan’s Ethics and the Spirit of Communism in Elizabethan Newcastle  2. The Merchant Richard Hill and His Book: Using Confessio Amatis Tales to Negotiate the Spiritual Marketplace in Henrician London  Part 2: Material Marketplaces  3. "Many tokenes passed betwixt them": Negotiating Meaning in the Matrimonial Market of Early Modern England  4. Catholics and the Underground Devotional Market in Post-Reformation England  5. Marketing English Catholicism Through Gifted Relics (c.1559–1640)  Part 3: Textual Marketplaces  6. Keeping the Romish Wolves at Bay: A Breviary for Britain and the Welsh Book Trade of the Sixteenth Century  7. Markets, Machinations, and Martin Mar-Prelate: The Marketplace of Publication and Espionage Surrounding the Marprelate Controversy  8. "Not sparing Kings in what they did not right": Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the King James Bible  Part 4: Literary Marketplaces  9. The Economics of Salvation in Early Modern Devotional Poetry  10. Exchange Economies and Free Enterprise in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure  11. The Invisible Economies of Marketplace and Church in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.  Epilogue