Dr Harry Spillane (Queens' College, Cambridge) : 'Bibles in Windows'
A lecture by Dr Harry Spillane examining how Protestants in Elizabethan England tried to regulate the physical materiality of English bibles kept in homes. AI summary of the listing
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In Elizabethan England, preachers began to criticise the elaborate display of English bibles in household windows and other domestic spaces. They voiced concerns about binding, decoration, storage and treatment, with complaints directed both at extravagant embellishments and at the neglect or damage done to some copies. Although the Bible occupied a central position in Protestant religious life, Protestants…
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