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Thomas Fuller : discovering England's religious past / W.B. Patterson.

By: Patterson, W. B. (William Brown), 1930-
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.Description: x, 368 p. : ill., facsim.; 24 cm ISBN: 9780198793700.Subject(s): Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661 | Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. -- Biography | Great Britain -- HistoriographyGeneral note: Contains printed references to Lambeth Palace Library manuscripts MS COD 909 and MS 998.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p.346-349) and index.
Contents:
1.Education: The Study of History and Theology -- 2.Apprenticeship: The Holy Warre and Impending Conflict -- 3.Ordeal: The Holy State, Peacemaking, and Revolution -- 4.Scholar and Controversialist: Seeking Order amidst Radical Change -- 5.Writing History: The European and English Contexts -- 6.Church Historian: The Church-History of Britain -- 7.Contemporary Historian: The Church-History of Britain -- 8.The Final Challenges: Restoration and Reaction -- 9.Social Historian: The History of the Worthies of England.
Summary: Long considered a highly distinctive English writer, Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) has not been treated as the significant historian he was. Fuller's 'The Church-History of Britain' (1655) was the first comprehensive history of Christianity from antiquity to the upheavals of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the tumultuous events of the English civil wars. His numerous publications outside the genre of history - sermons, meditations, pamphlets on current thought and events - reflected and helped to shape public opinion during the revolutionary era in which he lived. 'Thomas Fuller: Discovering England's Religious Past' highlights the fact that Fuller was a major contributor to the flowering of historical writing in early modern England..
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