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The son of a yeoman, John Prideaux rose to occupy high office in the University of Oxford and the church - rector of Exeter College, Oxford, regius professor of divinity, bishop of Worcester - as a result of his intellectual power, ambition, scholarship, and capacity for hard work, becoming a key figure in early Stuart political and church history.
List of contents
- Part 1. Events, 1578-1624
- 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612
- 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-1624
- Part 2. Topics
- 3: Rector Prideaux and his College
- 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College
- 5: Prideaux's Circle
- 6: Prideaux the Scholar
- Part 3. Events, 1624-1650
- 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-1630
- 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-1636
- 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-1640
- 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-1642
- 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50
- 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife
About the author
John Maddicott took his BA from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1964 and was elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship in Modern History at Exeter College in 1969, a position which he held until his retirement in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 2004, subsequently published in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina in 1982. Maddicott has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon history and on English social and political history, mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Summary
The son of a yeoman, John Prideaux rose to occupy high office in the University of Oxford and the church - rector of Exeter College, Oxford, regius professor of divinity, bishop of Worcester - as a result of his intellectual power, ambition, scholarship, and capacity for hard work, becoming a key figure in early Stuart political and church history.
Additional text
Maddicott ends this excellent biography of John Prideaux with some reasons why the subject has not been tackled before.
