Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. It demonstrates that the modern conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct and that both were integrated in early modern life.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 258 pages
\n Publication date: 30 November 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace delves into the intricate interplay between geographical, material, and ideological marketplaces, focusing on the role of religious belief and practice. By examining religiously motivated markets and practices in England, Scotland, and Wales during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in shaping and operationalizing social and economic markets.

The authors explore the realm of spiritual markets and marketplaces, examining the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part delves into material marketplaces, encompassing the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market.

In the third section, the chapters specifically focus on publication markets and books, including manuscripts, commonplace books, printed volumes, and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, analyzing plays and poems that engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets.

Taken together, this collection argues that the modern notion of a clear separation between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct. The chapters showcase the profound integration of both spheres in early modern life.

\n Weight: 498g\n
Dimension: 158 x 236 x 23 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367502317\n \n