Yale University Library Research Guides: History of the Bible &amp; the Book: Early Modern Bibles

Early Modern Bibles

Books in the Catholic World During the Early Modern Period (Online) by Natalia Maillard Álvarez (Editor); Natalia Maillard Álvarez (Editor) Looks at the relationships between Catholicism and books during the early modern period, before and after the religious schism, with special focus on trade, common reads and the mechanisms used to control readership in different territories, together with the similarities between the Catholic and the Protestant worlds.
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Online) by Jonathan Sheehan Shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so, the Bible was made into the cornerstone of Western heritage and invested with meaning, authority, and significance even for a secular age.
The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought (Online) by Travis DeCook Explores the theological and political innovations found in early modern accounts of the Bible's origins.

The English Bible in the Early Modern World by Robert Armstrong (Editor); Tadhg Ó Hannracháin (Editor) Addresses the Bible in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, C. 1530-1700 (Online) by Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith, and Rachel Willie (editors) Where existing scholarship focuses, typically, on Tyndale and the King James Bible of 1611, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in England, 1530-1700 goes further, tracing the vibrant and shifting landscape of biblical culture in the two centuries following the Reformation.
The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England by Naomi Tadmor Focuses in particular on the rendering into English of biblical terms of social description and demonstrates the emergence of a social universe through the processes of translation from ancient and medieval texts to successive and interrelated English versions.

The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England by Michael Gaudio Examines the visual culture of print in seventeenth-century England through the lens of one family and their hand-made biblical manuscripts.