The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.

About the Author
Amy G. Tan is an independent scholar. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2015.

Reviews

'Deeply grounded in manuscript research at the Beinecke Library at Yale, the Bodleian, British Library, the National Archives, Cambridge University, Chetham's Library Manchester and the Lincolnshire and Somerset Record Offices as well as in an enormous number of late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century printed texts it seems no stone has been left unturned. The long list of secondary sources - and Tan's active engagement with them in the body of the book - proclaims a comprehensive and up-to-date awareness; the full bibliography runs to sixteen pages of dense print.'
Literature & History

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Book Information
ISBN 9781526152206
Author Amy G. Tan
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 17mm