The godly re-presentation of Alexander Nyndge

Two versions of a Protestant dispossession narrative

Bibliographic Data

ID11493247
AuthorsAmy G Tan (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume34
Issue5
Pages583-599
Publication date2019-10-20
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Seventeenth Century (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-117X • E-ISSN: 2050-4616
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0268117x.2018.1483264
OpenAlexW2811062471
LanguageEN
References cited12

The sixteenth-century account of Alexander Nyndge’s dispossession saw republication in 1615. Yet this was not a mere reprint: alterations included passages borrowed from notable puritan authors George Gifford, John Darrel, and Edward Dering, and an invitation for audiences to take the account as an example. From the 1590s, the English national church’s responses to (typically puritan) minister-led dispossessions by prayer and fasting had restricted opportunities for the godly to perform and publicize dispossessions. However, republishing the Nyndge account with alterations enabled circulation of a godly dispossession narrative adapted to a contemporary context.With limited source materials after c. 1600, historians have had difficulty assessing continuities and changes in puritan ideas about dispossession. Yet comparing the two versions of the Nyndge publication and considering how the revision fit within a post-1604 context provide a window into how views and practices were developing over the early decades of the seventeenth century

Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Literature · Narrative · Prayer · Protestantism · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Scottish History and National Identity · Religious Studies

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