The son of a yeoman, John Prideaux rose to occupy high office in the University of Oxford and the church - rector of Exeter College, Oxford, regius professor of divinity, bishop of Worcester - as a result of his intellectual power, ambition, scholarship, and capacity for hard work, becoming a key figure in early Stuart political and church history.
The son of a yeoman, John Prideaux rose to occupy high office in the University of Oxford and the church - rector of Exeter College, Oxford, regius professor of divinity, bishop of Worcester - as a result of his intellectual power, ambition, scholarship, and capacity for hard work, becoming a key figure in early Stuart political and church history.
John Maddicott took his BA from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1964 and was elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship in Modern History at Exeter College in 1969, a position which he held until his retirement in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 2004, subsequently published in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina in 1982. Maddicott has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon history and on English social and political history, mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes Part 1. Events, 1578-1624 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612 1. Home, 1578-96 2. Rector Holland's Exeter 3. Undergraduate, graduate, fellow 1596-1610 4. The road to the rectorship, 1610-12 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-24 1. Defender of the Faith 2. The Synod of Dort and the Spanish Match 3. Foreign students, scholars, and visitors 4. William Lord Petre v. Exeter College 5. Responsibilities and rewards Part 2. Topics 3: Rector Prideaux and his College 1. Reputation and requirements 2. Undergraduates and graduates: Numbers 3. Undergraduates: Hierarchies and status 4. Fellows and tutors 5. Wealth 6. A 'hands-on' rector 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College 1. Intentions 2. The rector's lodgings 3. Peryam's Mansions 4. Sir John Acland's hall 5. Negotiations with the city of Exeter 6. Hakewill's chapel 7. Expansion northwards 8. Achievements and missed opportunities 5: Prideaux's Circle 1. Family 2. Colleagues 3. Allies 6: Prideaux the Scholar 1. Reputation 2. The substance of Prideaux's learning 3. The context of Prideaux's learning 4. Reason and theology 5. The instruction of the young 6. Prideaux's books Part 3. Events, 1624-50 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-30 1. Background to change 2. The affair of Richard Montagu 3. Prideaux embattled, 1627-30 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-6 1. The new broom 2. Conflicts: With Laud and the College 3. Conflicts: With Heylyn 4. Relations with the Continental churches 5. Prideaux and the Socinians 6. Laud's apogee: The new statutes and the king's visit 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-40 1. A recusant puritan? 2. The Chillingworth affair 3. University and College 4. The affairs of the nation 5. Prideaux and Laud: A retrospect 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-2 1. The early stages of the Long Parliament, 1640-1 2. Bishop and vice-chancellor, 1641-2 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50 1. Bishop of Worcester 2. Retirement: Family 3. Retirement: Books and writings 4. Last things 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes Part 1. Events, 1578-1624 1: Climbing the Ladder, 1578-1612 1. Home, 1578-96 2. Rector Holland's Exeter 3. Undergraduate, graduate, fellow 1596-1610 4. The road to the rectorship, 1610-12 2: Halcyon Years, 1612-24 1. Defender of the Faith 2. The Synod of Dort and the Spanish Match 3. Foreign students, scholars, and visitors 4. William Lord Petre v. Exeter College 5. Responsibilities and rewards Part 2. Topics 3: Rector Prideaux and his College 1. Reputation and requirements 2. Undergraduates and graduates: Numbers 3. Undergraduates: Hierarchies and status 4. Fellows and tutors 5. Wealth 6. A 'hands-on' rector 4: The Rebuilding of Exeter College 1. Intentions 2. The rector's lodgings 3. Peryam's Mansions 4. Sir John Acland's hall 5. Negotiations with the city of Exeter 6. Hakewill's chapel 7. Expansion northwards 8. Achievements and missed opportunities 5: Prideaux's Circle 1. Family 2. Colleagues 3. Allies 6: Prideaux the Scholar 1. Reputation 2. The substance of Prideaux's learning 3. The context of Prideaux's learning 4. Reason and theology 5. The instruction of the young 6. Prideaux's books Part 3. Events, 1624-50 7: The Decline of the Calvinist Cause, 1624-30 1. Background to change 2. The affair of Richard Montagu 3. Prideaux embattled, 1627-30 8: Rector Prideaux and Chancellor Laud, 1630-6 1. The new broom 2. Conflicts: With Laud and the College 3. Conflicts: With Heylyn 4. Relations with the Continental churches 5. Prideaux and the Socinians 6. Laud's apogee: The new statutes and the king's visit 9: From Laud's Apogee to Laud's Decline, 1636-40 1. A recusant puritan? 2. The Chillingworth affair 3. University and College 4. The affairs of the nation 5. Prideaux and Laud: A retrospect 10: Prideaux Redivivus and the Road to Civil War, 1640-2 1. The early stages of the Long Parliament, 1640-1 2. Bishop and vice-chancellor, 1641-2 11: In Office and in Retirement, 1642-50 1. Bishop of Worcester 2. Retirement: Family 3. Retirement: Books and writings 4. Last things 12: John Prideaux: Life and Afterlife Bibliography Index
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