Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious,...
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Local Consciousness in Renaissance England William Lambarde and Tudor Centralization Michael Drayton and Jacobean Court Culture George Herbert and Caroline Religious Uniformity Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Experience...