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A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England

By G. J. R. Parry

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1987
ISBN
9780521329972, 9780511560767, 0521522188, 0521329973, 0511560761, 9780521522182
LCC
BX5071 .P37 1987
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2645578 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Pages
360\358
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book deals with the thought of William Harrison, a well-known Elizabethan intellectual, whose ideas are significant chiefly because they are often representative of the thoroughgoing Protestantism which adapted continental reformed ideas to the circumstances of Tudor England. The book explains how the mentality of Harrison, a university-trained Protestant, reveals a coherent worldview based upon a particular view of history which he applied to many areas of contemporary concern: the complete reformation of the church, the improvement of society, the removal of economic injustice, the reorientation of practical life and the restraint of the dangerous speculation current in natural philosophy. Dr Parry draws upon a unique and previously unknown manuscript source, Harrison's interpretation of world history, which provides unusually detailed information about how one individual interpreted the world.

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