A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church

ISBN-13: 9781784786861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 416 str.

Christopher Hill

Opis

Preacher, Soldier, Rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?
John Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress is one of the most significant works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, there was a time when almost every household in Britain was more likely to have a copy than the Bible.
This classic biography of Bunyan by one of the leading historians of the 17th century offers a reassessment of the man in the context of his times. He is usually studied and remembered as the author of The Pilgrim s Progress and other Christian literature, but his own consideration of himself would most probably have been as a preacher first and foremost a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and into years of imprisonment. It was in the service of this religion that his writings were produced, many of them during the nearly twelve years spent in Bedford jail between 1660 and 1672.
An extraordinary insight into John Bunyan, one of the towering figures of English literature, this remains the definitive biography."

Recenzje

"Magnificent and searching study ... provocative, absorbing and hugely knowledgeable."
- Sunday Times

"Hill claims to put Bunyan back into his 'revolutionary age' ... and is totally successful."
- London Review of Books

"The commanding interpreter of seventeenth-century England."
- Guardian

"The dean and paragon of English historians."
-E.P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class

"Wide-ranging, popular and immensely prolific ... the dominant figure in studies of the period."
- Telegraph

O autorze

Christopher Hill (1912-2003), born in York, was a historian and academic specializing in seventeenth-century English history. As a young man he witnessed the growth of the Nazi party firsthand during a prolonged holiday in Germany, an experience he later said contributed to the radicalization of his politics. He was master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, his alma mater, from 1965 to 1978. His celebrated and influential works include Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution ; The World Turned Upside Down ; and A Turbulent, Seditious and Fractious People: John Bunyan and His Church .