Meditative textual practices in England, 1661-1678

• Main Author: Clifton, Thomas
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Birmingham 2023
• Subjects: BV1460 Religious Education; BX Christian Denominations; PN0441 Literary History; PR English literature

This thesis examines late seventeenth-century meditation as a textual practice in manuscript and print. It considers textual meditations, prayers, scriptural paraphrases, letters, memoirs, and verse, which appear in miscellanies in the period of the Cavalier Parliament, 1661 - 1678. It argues that t...