Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter: Volume I: 1638-1660

ISBN-13: 9780198185680 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 482 str.

N. H. Keeble; Geoffrey F. Nuttall

Opis

The correspondence of the Puritan divine Richard Baxter is an unusually rich source of evidence for seventeenth-century history, particularly the period's involved ecclesiastical history and its intellectual, cultural, and bibliographical tastes. These two volumes present the 1250 extant letters by and to Baxter. Presented chronologically, with extensive biographies, annotations, summaries, and contextual notes, many of the letters have never before been published.

Recenzje

'all students of the politics and religion of England of the mid- and later seventeenth century will welcome the erudition, exactitude, and good sense of this fine edition ... There is a great range both of subject-matter and of correspondents ... these are not editors to take short cuts. Their invaluable and beautifully produced compilation will be used largely as a calendar, but also deserves to be read through. There is no more vivid a guide to the religious landscape of the period.' Blair Worden, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Vol. 45, No. 179, Aug '94