ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the complex interweaving of these strands in the second half of the sixteenth century in England. Though English religious language and culture adapted to fit around its reformed doctrine, it did not mean the contours of its behaviours automatically transformed as well. As Collinson reminds us in discussions of Lollardy and dissent, whether or not they believed the same things, these people did the same things'. The contention over the "shape" and "letter" of worship' in Elizabethan England exposed critical fissures around the impact and nature of religious sensing. The reintroduction of traditional religious semantics based on speculation, alongside medieval liturgical texts, calendars and paraphernalia, aimed to return English religious sensing to its former condition. The most ardent non-conformists appear as the truest inheritors of medieval religious sensing on account of the tendency to retain an intrinsic intentionality for sensible religious objects that meant the persistence of pre-intellective affectivity.
