...Debora Shuger The three volumes of Little Gidding Story Books—the first published in 1899, the last in 1970—are based on shorthand transcripts of the informal seminars held on feast days during the early 1630s by members of a quasi-monastic extended family, most of them young women. The discussions...

...Adam Smyth This article explores the production of Gospel harmonies at Little Gidding in the 1630s. By drawing on rarely examined archival letters, documents, and drafts contained in the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge, the article examines the production processes behind the biblical...

...,” we should remind ourselves, and our daughters — “not that new.” Or — as Adam Smyth’s essay in this volume allows us to say, as it demonstrates that the work done on the Harmonized Gospels at Little Gidding positioned collage as that which “precedes writing as Christianity’s written mode...

...: The Work of Devotion in Tudor Literature  45 – 68 Picciotto, Joanna Devotion and Intellectual Labor  1 – 15 Shuger, Debora Laudian Feminism and the Household Republic of Little Gidding  69 – 94 672  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.3 / 2014 Sokolov, Danila Ane Detectioun...

... to reimagine the relations of devotion, labor, and authorship — is extended in all directions in the early modern period, often under the very sign of experiment. From the rise of so-­called “experimental religion” to what Debora Shuger calls the “spiritual empiricism” of the Little Gidding group...

... to lament the overthrow thereof.”15 In the late 1620s, Nicholas Ferrar established Little Gidding, a lay religious community, calling for the recitation of the entire Psalter every day. While not a monastic order — Little Gidding included women and children and members were not required to take vows...

.... reunion of the Catholic and Anglican churches was nearer than at any time before or since”: Capuchins frequented the royal palace in religious habits, and the queen’s chaplain was the first Franciscan provincial in England since the Reformation.128 At Little Gidding, just a few years before Mary...

... in which the material text was held, as seen in the deluxe trade bindings for the 1709 edition, which might have been the work of publishers or booksellers.42 Other deluxe bindings could well have been commissioned or undertaken by early owners, such as a copy associated with Little Gidding that Kathleen...

... of ways, this volume is a hybrid that brings together mul- tiple creators, multiple points in time, and multiple points in space. It was found, serendipitously, by Adam Smyth, when researching Little Gidding, and it is catalogued in the British Library as a work of Marten de Vos.6 No mention...

... Plays, ed. Hazlitt, 6:248. 45 T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” section V, from Four Quartets (London: Faber, 1971). 130  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 ...

..., . On cutting as writing, see Adam Smyth, “ ‘Shreds of holinesse’: George Herbert, Little Gidding, and Cutting Up Texts in Early Modern England,” English Literary Renaissance no. – and the special issue “The Renaissance Collage,” ed. Juliet Fleming, Bill Sherman, and Adam Smyth Journal...

... and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Medi- eval and Renaissance Studies, 2004). 60 “Little Gidding,” part 2, in T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (1944; repr. London: Faber, 1959), 44. 228  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 ...