Long Travail and Great Paynes: A Politics of Reformation Revision (Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society Book 1)

Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians alike. The earliest printed Bibles in the English language provide an astonishingly rich resource for interdisciplinary studies in the 21st century. __Long Travail and Great Paynes__ is a close textual analysis of seven texts that for a wide range of reasons, but no good ones, have been reduced to paratextual entries in general histories of the English Bible. Through extensive collations of her own, Westbrook uncovers the work of seven Renaissance Bible translator-revisers and argues forcefully for a new agenda to replace the outmoded and inappropriate one of evaluating Renaissance Bibles according to the extent of their influence on the 1611 King James Authorised Version. Every sixteenth-century text reflects something of the historical dynamic in which it was created, and English Renaissance Bibles, with their ever-changing text and paratext, have their own unique stories to tell. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix George Joye’s New Testament....Pages 1-13 Myles Coverdale’s English Psalter....Pages 14-35 John Rogers and the Matthew Bible....Pages 36-77 Richard Taverner’s Revision....Pages 78-112 Edmund Becke’s Revision....Pages 113-126 William Whittingham’s New Testament....Pages 127-142 The Geneva Bible Annotations....Pages 143-173 A Paratextual Conclusion....Pages 174-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-190