How important was religion in determining early modern identity?
Carlo Ginzburg, “The inquisitor as anthropologist”, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method (Johns Hopkins UP, 1989), 158-64.
John Arnold, “The historian as inquisitor: the ethics of interrogating subaltern voices”, Rethinking History 2 (1998), 379-86.
Patricia Caldwell, The Puritan Conversion Narrative (Cambridge, 1983)
Dean Ebner, Autobiography in Seventeenth-Century England (The Hague, 1971)
John Stachniewski, The Persecutory Imagination: English Puritanism and the Literature of Religious Despair (Oxford, 1991)
Owen C. Watkins, The Puritan Experience (London, 1972)
Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: MA, 1954)
Jennifer Bryan, Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, 2008)
Sacvan Bercovitch, The Puritan Origins of the American Self (1975)
The paper is a 2500 word essay. The scholarship listed above can be used.
This paper is to highlight how important religion was in determining society in the early modern period, A series of scholorship can be used and must be used, backed with clear evidence.
