Description: This innovative exploration of Puritan reading practices from c.1580-1720 connects the history of religion with the history of the book.
Brief description: Andrew Cambers has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Exeter and Lancaster and is editor of The Life of John Rastrick, 1650-1727 (2010).
Review Quotes: "Andrew Cambers's Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720 is more interested in the psychological than the political aspects of Puritanism, but it also challenges some tenacious popular assumptions."- David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement