The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses, 1600-1714 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199204816)

Richard Hooker has long been viewed as one of England's great theological and political writers. When he died, however, at the end of the sixteenth century, his writings had proved to be something of a damp squib. This book examines, against the background of the political and religious crises of the seventeenth century, how he came to rise from comparative obscurity to be regarded as a universal authority. It will be seen how an unintended alliance of Reformed Protestants, suspicious of Hooker, and Catholics, anxious to exploit his perceived sympathies, led to his establishment as a distinctive, well-regarded English writer. Whilst the boundaries of Hooker's comprehensiveness have expanded and contracted in response to particular situations, the belief that he is an important writer has remained remarkably constant ever since.

Author: Michael Brydon
ISBN-10: 0199204810
ISBN-13: 9780199204816
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2007
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d