This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature

The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and in

This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bible was rea