Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

A study of English women's religious reading and writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Bringing to bear a commanding knowledge of Hebrew Scripture, Osherow presents a series of case studies of biblical heroines who engage in poetry and in song. Th

The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England studies how immersion in the Bible among layfolk gave rise to a non-professional writing culture, one of t

Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This rema