Reconciling Rites: Essays in Honour of Myra N. Blyth

Abstract

explored and interrogated in ways that illuminate broader aspects of early modern culture such as, for example, the sensory dimensions of worship shaped by the Westminster Assembly’s Directory and Catechism or the complex intersections between, and implications of, persecution and toleration for sectarian religious identities. Importantly, the collection also draws on and introduces readers to a rich array of primary sources in both manuscript and print and the processes by which these have been produced, gathered, disseminated, and annotated, ensuring that the volume provides not only a summary of existing scholarship, but also points to opportunities for future research: ‘the manuscript records of the congregations of Christ that reveal, often in the most beautiful and powerful terms, what being a Dissenter really meant’ (p. 493).