Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England Knowing Faith

“It stands as an important contribution to an emerging body of literary scholarship that is investigating the history of belief with renewed attention. As Rowan Williams’s wide-ranging Afterword intimates, it may also help us to recover some of the foundations of our present-day habits of thought.” (Joseph Ashmore, Modern Language Review, Vol. 116 (1), January, 2021)

Subha Mukherji is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, UK, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature . Her publications include Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama (2006), Early Modern Tragicomedy (ed. with Raphael Lyne, 2007), Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces (ed.) (2011), Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt (ed. with Yota Batsaki and Jan-Melissa Schramm, 2012), and Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World (ed.) (forthcoming, 2018).

Tim Stuart-Buttle is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK, and Junior Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. From 2014-17 he was a Research Associate on the Crossroads of Knowledge project at the University of Cambridge. His first monograph, From Moral Theology from Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume , is forthcoming.