Religious Materiality in Elizabethan Essex (1558-1603)
Based on an analysis of over 11,000 Elizabethan Essex wills, this article presents the first systematic study of the everyday religious environment of Essex. While scholars of the English Reformation increasingly study the everyday behaviors, routines, and rituals which defined English Protestant li...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2020]
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| In: |
Material religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Essex
/ England
/ History 1558-1603
/ Everyday life
/ Religiosity
/ Materiality
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture CH Christianity and Society KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles |
| Further subjects: | B
Material Culture
B Materiality B Memory B Religion B Essex B Remembrance B Reformation B Early Modern |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Based on an analysis of over 11,000 Elizabethan Essex wills, this article presents the first systematic study of the everyday religious environment of Essex. While scholars of the English Reformation increasingly study the everyday behaviors, routines, and rituals which defined English Protestant life, this article articulates how smaller household objects expand our knowledge of religion, practice, and remembrance in post-Reformation England. It also reinvestigates the potential for using wills as a foundation for the study of objects. This, in turn, helps us better understand and appreciate the substantial role objects had as part of an English Protestant religious identity increasingly built around remembrance and memory and, more broadly, enables us to question our historiographical assumptions about the speed, spread, and efficiency of the Reformation. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2020.1756166 |