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Mapping the Scottish Reformation.

  BROCK, Mikki, and Chris Langley. 2022 An introduction to the National Records of Scotland database, Mapping the Scottish Reformation.  

Sex Lives of Saints: An erotics of ancient hagiography.

  BURRUS, Virginia. 2010 “Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus [argues] that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive ‘countereroticism’ that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.”  

Perdita Project.

  CLARKE, Elizabeth, et al. 1997- “An open-access, online, descriptive catalogue of manuscripts written or compiled by British women between 1500 and 1700, housed at Warwick University.” Contains “everything but the text”.  

English Primers (1529-1545).

  BUTTERWORTH, Charles C. 1953 Butterworth gives a detailed account of these English-language textbooks, which contained the basic prayers and religious teachings of Christianity, and which played a significant role in promoting both literacy and Protestantism among the common people.  

History of the Reformation, volumes 1-4.

  D’AUBIGNÉ, Jean-Henri Merle. 1847 D’Aubigné’s work gave 19th-century Protestants a comprehensive account of their religious heritage from the Reformation, written from an evangelical perspective that emphasized its biblical foundations and opposition to Catholic doctrine and practices.  

Lives in Transit in Early Modern England.

  DAS, Nandini (editor). 2022 Twenty-four case studies illustrating how questions of mobility and transculturality were negotiated in practice in the early modern world.  

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

  DAS, Nandini (editor). 2021 Following the model of Raymond Williams’s Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), these essays “analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period”.