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One of the most popular Renaissance genres, the epigram has nonetheless been largely neglected by scholars and critics. This book, the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947, combines a deep awareness of the genre's history and conventions with a historicist consideration of their social, political and religious contexts. Tracing the oral, manuscript and print circulation of individual epigrams, it demonstrates their central place in the poetic culture of the period. The epigram was known for brevity, sharpness and an urbane tone, but its subject matter ranged widely....

James I and the Religious Culture of England is a study of King James's influence, both direct and indirect, on various aspects of religious life in England during his reign; James emerges as more interested in religious matters than in any other aspect of English culture. It brings together literary, religious and political history to consider such topics as the poetic response to James's accession, prophetic poetry at court, the neo-Latin religious epigram, the politics of conversion, and the biblical iconography of peace-making applied to James; the short devotional lyric, religious...