Record Number: 167
Reading Experience:
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..."'
Century:1500-1599
Date:Between 1585 and 1590
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reading Group: Age:Unknown
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
mixed congregation also reading
preacher
Religion:Puritan
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
a congregation of puritans of all ages and both sexes
Additional Comments:
Preachers reading aloud and Puritan congregation following in own Bibles
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Bible
Genre:Bible, Classics, Y
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:167
Source: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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=167, accessed: 24 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Margaret Spufford, "Small Books and Pleasant Histories" (Athens GA, 1981), pp.30-4
