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Thomas Fuller - Discovering England's Religious Past (Hardcover)
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Thomas Fuller - Discovering England's Religious Past (Hardcover)
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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. W. B.
Patterson provides both a biography of Thomas Fuller's life and
career in the midst of the most wrenching changes his country had
ever experienced and a critical account of the origins, growth, and
achievements of a new kind of history in England, a process to
which he made a significant and original contribution. The volume
begins with a substantial introduction dealing with memory, uses of
the past, and the new history of England in the late sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries. Fuller was moved by the changes in
Church and state that came during the civil wars that led to the
trial and execution of King Charles I and to the Interregnum that
followed. He sought to revive the memory of the English past,
recalling the successes and failures of both distant and recent
events. The book illuminates Fuller's focus on history as a means
of understanding the present as well as the past, and on religion
and its important place in English culture and society.
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