Edited by Michael Davies, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, Anne Dunan-Page, Professor of Early Modern British Studies, Aix-Marseille Université, and Joel Halcomb, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia

Michael Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Among his publications is Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan (2002). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan (with W. R. Owens; 2018).

Anne Dunan-Page is Professor of Early Modern British Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, where she directs the Research Centre on the Anglophone World. Her books include Grace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind (2006), The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (2010), and Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture (with Beth Lynch; 2008).

Joel Halcomb is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He was assistant editor for The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1652 (2012).

Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page, Crawford Gribben, Polly Ha, Joel Halcomb, Ann Hughes, N. H. Keeble, Kathleen Lynch, Chad Van Dixhoorn, Elliot Vernon

"The essays in this useful volume collectively treat the "experience" of seventeenth-century English Dissent with an eye to both socio-political context and the dynamic involvement of "the unknown Dissenters"...Specialists, graduate students, and precocious undergraduates are well served by this needed engagement with the complicated factors that comprised and informed the "experience" of Dissent in seventeenth-century England." - Jonathan Baddley, Vanderbilt University, Church History

"Compelling and ultimately persuasive, scholars and students interested in early modern religion and identity, community and controversy, or an alternate view of parish life, will find much of value in this erudite yet accessible work." - Robert W. Daniel, Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture

"A significant addition to the study of seventeenth-century Dissent, theology and practice, considering the ways in which church life was shaped by an extraordinary variety of political and social concerns. It succeeds on every level in bringing Dissenting experiences, and the records and writings documenting them, to life." - Rachel Adcock, The English Historical Review

"[A] welcome opening up of new perspectives on seventeenth-century religious nonconformity. It strikes this reviewer as essential reading for anyone with an interest in that field." - Jason A. Kerr, Reformation

"Well researched throughout, and encompassing a broad chronological span, Church Life is a welcome addition to the existing literature on dissenting churches." - Rosalind Johnson, Journal of British Studies

"Miltonists who are interested in seventeenth-century religious history will want to have a look at this collection of essays about his period... this collection demonstrates a range of issues that could trigger further research into Milton's own idealized considerations of how the church should operate." - Jameela Lares, University of Southern Mississippi, Milton Quarterly

"Church Life provides scholars with a much-needed, deeper, and more nuanced look at the experience of Dissenting church life and is particularly strong when it comes to scholarship about changes in ecclesial structure and authority." - Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson, Reading Religion

"This book is to be commended. It is not intimidatingly large, as so many recent, if useful, 'handbooks' have been. Yet it presents many pertinent issues in accessible language from a number of leading scholars. It is clearly encouraging for readers of this magazine to see a wider interest in the history of their own churchmanship. A good book on such subjects, well presented, is always welcome." - Susan Matthews, Congregational History Society Magazine

"The essays here offer valuable insights into the forces that helped to determine the content and direction of the differing streams through changing ecclesiastical and political times." - Stephen Copson, Baptist Quarterly