Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity

In 1994, Debora K. Shuger published her field-changing study, The Renaissance Bible : Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity . Shuger’s book offers a wide-reaching and intellectually ambitious exploration of the centrality of the inter-connected discourses of literature and theology in the period. Throughout, Shuger troubles prevailing assumptions about religion and its purview by expanding the archive of "religious writing" far beyond the devotional poetry and prose that had so long been the p