1. Introduction : reading salvation -- 2. Augustine and early modern literacy -- 3. The control of the word : Renaissance exegesis and the education of the reader -- 4. The "real" word of God -- 5. The grammar of embodiment and biblical interpretation -- 6. John Donne's metaphoric God -- 7. Educating gentlemen : allegory, literacy and Spenser's Faerie queene -- 8. Lily, Latin literacy and "enfranchisement" in Shakespeare's Love's labour lost and Two gentlement of Verona
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-181) and index