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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys, 1500–1700 ed. by Margaret P. Hannay, Michael G. Brennan, and Mary Ellen Lamb (review)

as a whole makes an important point. Historians and literary scholars regularly and rightly proclaim the importance of the Bible to the men and women of early modern England. As the editors note, “It is difficult to overestimate the reach and importance of the Bible within early modern society,” a society in which biblical narratives “operated as filters through which personal and political circumstances were conceived, and provided imagery and discourse that could be mobilised to comment on any issue” (4, 6). While the biblical text exerted undoubted force on early modern English society, it did so through individuals who wielded considerable power over and through the text, as they selectively summoned and creatively interpreted its people, stories, and teachings. In early modern England, the Bible was not a rigid blueprint to be accepted or denied. It was instead a remarkably flexible source of meaning and authority for men and women in a rapidly changing world.