| Evidence: | ' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preachers, discussing the passages among themselves to see whether they had quoted them to the point, and accurately, and in harmony with their tenets. Also, they would start arguing among themselves about the meaning of passages from the Scriptures - men, women, boys, girls, rustics, labourers and idiots..."' |
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| Century: | 1500-1599 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1585 and 1590 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Puritans |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) mixed congregation also reading |
| Occupation: | preacher |
| Religion: | Puritan |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
a congregation of puritans of all ages and both sexes |
| Additional comments: | Preachers reading aloud and Puritan congregation following in own Bibles |
| Author: | |
| Title: | The Bible |
| Genre: | Bible, Classics, Y |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 167 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 14 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 14, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=167, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
| See Margaret Spufford, "Small Books and Pleasant Histories" (Athens GA, 1981), pp.30-4 |
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