02001    a2200337   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001300151072001500164072001600179072001400195072001400209072001400223072001300237072001600250072002100266072002100287072002100308072002000329100002100349245004500370250000600415260003200421300001000453520120000463131707117420250317111630.0250312042016GB                   eng    a9781317071174  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 42.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSB2thema7 aN2thema7 aQRA2thema7 a1DDU2bisac7 a3M2bisac7 aDSBD2bic7 aHBLH2bic7 aHRA2bic7 a1DBK2bisac7 aLIT0190002bisac7 aHIS0370402bisac7 aLIT0000002bisac7 a820.93842bisac1 aJennifer Clement10aReading Humility in Early Modern England  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20160303  a166 p  bWhile humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to early modern concepts of the self. As this study shows, early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading, and make humility foundational to any proper understanding of human agency.   Yet humility has received little critical interest, and has often been misunderstood as a false virtue that engenders only self-abjection. This study offers an overview of various ways in which humility is discussed, deployed, or resisted in early modern texts ranging from the explicitly religious and autobiographical prose of Katherine Parr and John Donne, to the more politically motivated prose of Queen Elizabeth I and the seventeenth-century reformer and radical Thomas Tryon. As part of the wider 'turn to religion' in early modern studies, this study seeks to complicate our understanding of a mainstream early modern virtue, and to problematize a mode of critical analysis that assumes agency is always defined by resistance.