Sources

Primary Sources

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Facsimiles & Reprints

  • Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Death Sermons unto the Living (1620) bound with The Honour of Vertue (1620). Facsimile Reproductions With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Anne Arbor, MI: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1999.
  • Ford, William Anne. A sermon preached at Constantinople at the funeral of Lady Anne Glover (1616). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Ann Arbor, MI: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 2005.
  • Denison, Stephen. The Monument or Tombstone: Or a Sermon Preached at Laurence Pountnies Church in London, Novemb. 21. 1619. At the Funerall of Mrs. Elizabeth Juxon, the late wife of Mr. Juxon. A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1996.
  • Donne, John Anne. A sermon of commemoration of the Lady Danvers, late wife of Sr. John Danvers (1627). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Ann Arbor, MI: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 2006.
  • Gamon, Hanibal Anne. The Praise of a Godly woman (1627). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Ann Arbor, MI: Scholar' Facsimiles & Reprints, 2001.
  • Harrison, William and William Leigh. Death's Advantage Little Regarded, and The Soules Solace Against Sorrow. Preached in Two Funerall Sermons at Childwal in Lancashire at the buriall of Mistris Katherine Brettergh, the third of June, 1601. A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1993.
  • Taylor, Thomas. The Pilgrim's Profession (1625). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1995.
  • Wolcombe, Robert. The state of the godly both in this life and in the life to come (1606). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Bettie Anne Doebler and Retha M. Warnicke. Ann Arbor, MI: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 2009.

Secondary Sources

  • Amussen, Susan Dwyer. An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
  • Anselment, Raymond. "Anthony Walker, Mary Rich, and Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons of Women." Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 37, no. 3 (2015): 200-224.
  • Becker, Lucinda M. Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2003.
  • Crawford, Patricia. Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • ----------.Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
  • Daniell, Christopher. Death and Burial in Medieval England: 1066-1550. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • D'Avray, David. "The Comparative Study of Memorial Preaching." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 40 (1990): 25-42.
  • Dingel, Irene. ""True Faith, Christian Living, and a Blessed Death." Sixteenth-Century Funeral Sermons as Evangelical Proclamation." Lutheran Quarterly XXVII (2013): 399-420.
  • Fletcher, Anthony. Gender, Sex & Subordination in England: 1500-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
  • Gordon, Andrew, and Thomas Rist, eds. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.
  • Gordon, Bruce and Peter Marshall, eds. The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara F. McManus. Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
  • Henderson, Desirée. "The Imperfect Dead: Mourning Women in Eighteenth-Century Oratory and Fiction." Early American Literature 39, no. 3 (2013): 487-509.
  • Houlbrooke, Ralph. Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
  • Inglesby, Roisin. "An Unusual Embroidery of Mary Magdalene" V&A Online Journal 7, Summer 2015. Accessed April 1, 2018. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/research-journal/issue-no.-7-autumn-2015/an-unusual-embroidery-of-mary-magdalene/
  • Key, Newton and Robert Bucholz. Sources and Debates in English History: 1485-1714, 2nd ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
  • Marshall, Peter. Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Molekamp, Femke. "Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons and Exemplary Female Devotion: Gendered Spaces and Histories." Renaissance and Reformation 35, no. 1, Special Issue (Winter 2012). 43-63.
  • Peters, Christine. Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Rockwell, Geoffrey, and Stéfan Sinclair. Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.
  • Shami, Jeanne. "Reading Funeral Sermons for Early Modern English Women: Some Literacy and Historiographical Challenges." In Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, edited by Chanita Goodblatt, 282-308. Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 2008.
  • Sherlock, Peter. Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008.
  • Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage In England 1500-1800. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1977.
  • Tarlow, Sarah. Ritual, Belief, and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Veylit, Alain. "Some Statistics on the Number of Surviving Printed Titles for Great Britain and Dependencies from the Beginnings of Print in England to the year 1800." Accessed on April 1, 2018. http://estc.ucr.edu/ESTCStatistics.html#WING.
  • Warnicke, Retha M. Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • ----------.Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
  • Wiesner, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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