Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace
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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace
About This Book
Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Scotland, and Wales, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the social and economic markets. Within the volume, the authors address first spiritual markets and marketplaces, discussing the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part addresses material marketplaces, including the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market. In the third part of the volume, the chapters focus specifically on publication markets and books, including manuscripts and commonplace books, as well as printed volumes and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, with analyses of plays and poems which engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets. Taken as a whole, this collection posits that the "modern" conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct, and the chapters demonstrate the depth to which both were integrated in early modern life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: Church, Coin, and CustomâReligious Conflict and the Marketplace
- Part One: Spiritual Marketplaces
- Part Two: Material Marketplaces
- Part Three: Textual Marketplaces
- Part Four: Literary Marketplaces
- Index