Between Scholarship and Church Politics The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Testo aggiuntivo

Maddicott ends this excellent biography of John Prideaux with some reasons why the subject has not been tackled before.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John (Emeritus Fellow Maddicott, John Maddicott, Maddicott John
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918
• EAN: 9780192896100
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289610-0
• Numero di pagine: 454
• Serie: History of Universities Series; History of Universities Monographs
• Categorie: England, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, Religion & politics, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Religion and Politics, C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance