Writing Religious Conflict and Community in Exeter

John Milton’s answer to the conundrum of why people love a tyrant is that people love “not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope or more indulgence than under tyrants” #milton

Now live: our annotated online anthology of primary texts from early modern Exeter exploring how varied religious and communal identities are expressed in writing. Includes poems, sermons, memoirs and polemical pamphlets from 1589 to 1740. Enjoy! reconex.exeter.ac.uk/texts/

@paul_salzman There's a lot here that I'm misreading or unable to understand, but I think it's a denunciation of public houses? 'Tafarn sydd ddiffydd': 'The tavern is faithless'. Later on, 'Bwth lledrad' would be 'Hut of larceny'. I don't think this is a well-known poem.

Hello clever people; is this Welsh??

The latest publication from @WritingExeter is now out in open access for anyone to read - @DrDParry discusses the theme of hypocrisy in previously unstudied MS Dissenting sermons @DExInstitution.

@Ian_Maxted As with our previous conversation, @Ian_Maxted has kindly put together an extensive set of tables and data to accompany our discussion on his Exeter Working Papers in Book History site: bookhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/westco…

We are delighted to welcome @Ian_Maxted back to our podcast to discuss printing and the book trade in Exeter c.1640-1750. We discuss the impact of the Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution and genres including sermons, newspapers, maps and engraved portraits. reconex.exeter.ac.uk/2024/05/09/rec…

Final paper of the conference 😱 John Bunyan: Intimately Local to Outrageous Global and Back Again, by Janet Wootton, @WritingExeter @UniofExeter @BunyanSociety

Paul Auchterlonie: Ellis Veryard, Joseph Pitts and Exeter Cathedral Library: what can they tell us about Islam? @WritingExeter conference @UniofExeter

David Manning: Cotton Mather's New England, @WritingExeter conference @UniofExeter

Fr Peter O'Kane, ... Female Hymn-Writers of Early Modern Britain (inc. a superb ref to the iconic Father Ted🤣), @WritingExeter conference @UniofExeter

'Deborah Huish... Using the Psalms in Writing Faith', by Melissa Marsh, @WritingExeter @UniofExeter

@Annie5tephenson @UniofExeter @BVHill2

James Pierce and Exeter: The Apologist and 'Arch- Heretic' in the city, by Bracy Hill @WritingExeter conference @UniofExeter

@Annie5tephenson @UniofExeter @ThomasCliftonA5

Thomas Clifton: Community, Faith and Solitude in the Meditations and Memoirs of Elizabeth Delaval, @WritingExeter @UniofExeter

Delighted to participate in and present a panel paper @WritingExeter - 3 days of rich, stimulating, and varied papers on religion in the early modern regions. Great to air the subject of MA thesis again!

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Always great to hearse @DrDParry to talk about southwestern dissenters and his paper is about “prodigal, providence and politics in sermons and self-writing by Exeter dissenters, c. 1666–1750” @WritingExeter

The Theme of Perception in Dr Richard Burthogge..., by Samuel Head, @WritingExeter @UniofExeter

Final paper in this morning panel is by @MrHistoryHead, talking about the theme of perception in Dr Richard Burthogge’s Prudential Reasons for Repealing the Penal Laws ... and for a General Toleration (1687). @WritingExeter