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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… thesis argues that sixteenth-century English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), and Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of …
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To ask "fit things fitly" : the prayers of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
… often been overlooked: the array of devotional manuals purporting to provide instruction on the art of Christian prayer. When considered alongside this tradition, it becomes apparent that the prayers in Donne's 'Devotions' can be read as evidence of its author's participation in the project of …