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CALL FOR PAPERS:‘Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript in Early Modern England, 1558-1700’ University of Warwick, Monday 26 June 2017, Ramphal BuildingPlenary Speakers:Emeritus Prof Bernard Capp (Warwick) and Dr Johanna Harris (Exeter)‘Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript’ is a major multi-disciplinary conference, hosted by the University of Warwick’s English Department in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, the Humanities Research Centre and the Early Modern Forum.  Contributions are invited from established scholars and postgraduate students alike.  Publication of a selection of papers is envisioned.Themes for papers may include (but are not limited to): literary, visual. political, theological, historical, material, musical, polemical or any other treatments of the topics of devotional writing in print or manuscript in the context of reformation-era England.These may include: Piety of the Household/Neighbourhood Children, Catechism and Memory Temptation/Possession/Conversion Narratives Fasts/Feasts/Thanksgiving Days Prayer Books/Church Books/Book of Sports Psalmody versus Hymnody Playhouses, the Pulpit, and the Theatre of the Word Sick-bed/Death-bed Accounts (ars moriendi) Godly Missives and Communal Correspondences Martyrology/Hagiography Religious Iconography/Graffiti/Objects Biblicism versus Fanaticism Spiritual Manuals and/or Cases of ConsciencePlease send abstracts/panel proposals of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper (along with a brief biography) by 30 April 2017 to: devotionalwritinginengland@gmail.com.For more information, see: https://devotionalwritinginprintandmanuscriptinearlymodernengland.com&#160;