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pastoral manual Faithfvll Shepheard (1607; rev. 1609, 1621) and his reference work Thesaurus Biblicus (1644). But perhaps most striking is that Bernard included meditative content across a markedly wide range of publications. The present chapter explores this, considering what we can learn about divine meditation by taking a broad view of the occasions, and genres, wherein meditative
’s writing by topic and genre, neither study fully addresses the connections between topically or generically distinct works that were produced chronologically quite close to one another, and sometimes with significant overlap in content. This by no means disputes the value of topical or generic approaches – indeed several chapters above use these divisions. Rather, I want to
in his career – functioned in concert with his aims for the publication. Now, we turn to a circumstance from Bernard’s life that prompted not one but two publications, in two quite distinct genres. As we will see, although these publications were markedly different from one another, and indeed from the rest of his corpus, they aimed toward common sets of goals: for spiritual
’s attempts to have Thesaurus licensed for printing, and the content of each of its three sections, in view of his intentions to make Thesaurus accessible to a broad audience that explicitly included lay users. With this in view, I argue that in Thesaurus Bernard leveraged the reference genre to support an approach – in certain senses radical, yet to some degree already in
idiosyncratic features which means that this volume brings some new facets to the genre of ‘cathedral history’. Most strikingly, it allows us to examine a multi-organizational and multi-functional structure over six hundred years. Despite Samuel Hibbert-Ware’s mid-nineteenth-century emphasis on the seamless connections between parish church, College, Cathedral, and diocese, in fact these were separate (if overlapping) legal entities. The Collegiate Church was an extension of an existing parish church before being
This study analyses the career choices and religious contexts of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways that the ability to publish could enhance, limit, or change pastoral ministry. It demonstrates ways ministers strategically tailored content and genre to achieve certain religious goals among both clerical and lay audiences, and considers ways in which authorship was interconnected with parish work as well as one’s position within the national church. The book features an extended case study of Richard Bernard, a particularly prolific pastor-author whose career provides a coherent framework through which to analyse key features of early modern pastoral-authorial work. It further gives attention to George Gifford, Thomas Wilson, and Samuel Hieron, each of whose career circumstances and authorial choices broaden our view of different ways clerics might incorporate print as an intentional part of their religious vocation. As the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, this study provides a paradigm for understanding these clerics’ efforts in print and parish as an integral part of their careers and their overarching religious goals. By addressing pastoral-authorial work across the span of a career, and by considering how pastor-authors engaged a wide range of topics and genres, the study engages with multiple areas of current scholarly interest: censorship, private religious devotion, polemic, witchcraft, religious education, reference works, and more. The study provides a remarkably comprehensive picture of pastoral publishing and offers a new lens through which to view the intersection of emerging print technologies and religious work in this pivotal period.
also considers ways ministers conceived of potential audiences, tailoring content and genre to meet audience needs and achieve certain religious goals. Altogether, it posits that we can more fully understand post-Reformation English religion by coupling analysis of the nature of clerical ministry with analysis of developments in print publications – including format, genre, timing, and content
contexts. The Faithfvll Shepheard 1607 : A dual approach of careful study and personal application As a genre under development in the early modern period, there was no singular model for clerical manuals. 4 The variety of emphases of these manuals can tell us something about the range of perceptions of the ministry itself and of common problems
Bernard’s ministry, as a type of life writing. A range of studies have addressed early modern developments in self-writing, considering how both men and women recorded their lives in a variety of genres, with different audiences in mind. 44 Among these, as Adam Smyth, Jason Scott-Warren, and others have discussed, opportunities for self-portrayal appeared not only in more or less
, making no significant departures in method or content. In 1630, however, Bernard produced an entirely new catechism, substantially different from his earlier ones. In this same year he published Good Christian Looke to thy Creede , a work that adapted key aspects of the catechetical genre via its question-and-answer format and its content, but which he did not