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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
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Part 1. Events, 1578-1624
- 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612
- 1. Home, 1578-96
- 2. Rector Holland's Exeter
- 3. Undergraduate, graduate, fellow 1596-1610
- 4. The road to the rectorship, 1610-12
- 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-24
- 1. Defender of the Faith
- 2. The Synod of Dort and the Spanish Match
- 3. Foreign students, scholars, and visitors
- 4. William Lord Petre v. Exeter College
- 5. Responsibilities and rewards
- Part 2. Topics
- 3: Rector Prideaux and his College
- 1. Reputation and requirements
- 2. Undergraduates and graduates: Numbers
- 3. Undergraduates: Hierarchies and status
- 4. Fellows and tutors
- 5. Wealth
- 6. A 'hands-on' rector
- 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College
- 1. Intentions
- 2. The rector's lodgings
- 3. Peryam's Mansions
- 4. Sir John Acland's hall
- 5. Negotiations with the city of Exeter
- 6. Hakewill's chapel
- 7. Expansion northwards
- 8. Achievements and missed opportunities
- 5: Prideaux's Circle
- 1. Family
- 2. Colleagues
- 3. Allies
- 6: Prideaux the Scholar
- 1. Reputation
- 2. The substance of Prideaux's learning
- 3. The context of Prideaux's learning
- 4. Reason and theology
- 5. The instruction of the young
- 6. Prideaux's books
- Part 3. Events, 1624-50
- 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-30
- 1. Background to change
- 2. The affair of Richard Montagu
- 3. Prideaux embattled, 1627-30
- 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-6
- 1. The new broom
- 2. Conflicts: With Laud and the College
- 3. Conflicts: With Heylyn
- 4. Relations with the Continental churches
- 5. Prideaux and the Socinians
- 6. Laud's apogee: The new statutes and the king's visit
- 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-40
- 1. A recusant puritan?
- 2. The Chillingworth affair
- 3. University and College
- 4. The affairs of the nation
- 5. Prideaux and Laud: A retrospect
- 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-2
- 1. The early stages of the Long Parliament, 1640-1
- 2. Bishop and vice-chancellor, 1641-2
- 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50
- 1. Bishop of Worcester
- 2. Retirement: Family
- 3. Retirement: Books and writings
- 4. Last things
- 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
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.
