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The Religious Environment of Early Modern England The Religious Environment of Early Modern England
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The Prayer Book, Conformity, and Royalism The Prayer Book, Conformity, and Royalism
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A Puritan Style of Piety A Puritan Style of Piety
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Religious Identity and Devotional Reading Religious Identity and Devotional Reading
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Godliness Personified in the Isham Household Godliness Personified in the Isham Household
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Prayer Book Puritanism? Prayer Book Puritanism?
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Notes Notes
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5 ‘To piety more prone’: Elizabeth Isham’s religion
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Published:July 2016
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Abstract
This chapter addresses two central themes found throughout the monograph – Elizabeth Isham’s personal piety and confessional identity. At the foundation of her life was religion and it served as the key factor in her decision to write the autobiography. Elizabeth’s account allows us to open a window into both her internal and external religiosity finding that she held a strong penchant for the Book of Common Prayer while also engaging in an intense form of internal piety common among the godly, a combination of practices best described as ‘Prayer Book Puritanism’. A great deal of recent scholarship has sought to blur the confessional differences that existed in early modern England, with an underlying assumption that what best characterized the period was a broad Protestant culture, defined more by consensual coexistence and commonalities than religious conflict. On the surface, Elizabeth appears a perfect candidate to illustrate this, but to see her as such leads to a lack of appreciation for the uniqueness of her devotional practices. Instead, viewing her as an ‘exceptional norm’ pays more dividends showing how an individual could live her piety, full of contours and facets, in the ambiguous, diverse, and divisive context of early modern England’s religious environment.
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