Laudian and Royalist Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: The Career and Writings of Peter Heylyn. By Anthony Milton
Peter Heylyn, the arch-defender of Archbishop Laud, has not had a good press: trained, as one contemporary put it, in ‘Billingsgate Colledge’, he was, according to a later historian, ‘as dull and impertinent, as he is malicious and inveterate’. His relentless polemic brought Thomas Carlyle to despai...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 323-324 |
| Review of: | Laudian and royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England (Manchester [u.a.] : Manchester Univ. Press, 2007) (Ford, Alan)
Laudian and royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England (Manchester [u.a.] : Manchester Univ. Press, 2007) (Ford, Alan) |
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| Summary: | Peter Heylyn, the arch-defender of Archbishop Laud, has not had a good press: trained, as one contemporary put it, in ‘Billingsgate Colledge’, he was, according to a later historian, ‘as dull and impertinent, as he is malicious and inveterate’. His relentless polemic brought Thomas Carlyle to despair: ‘the human brain in this stage of its progress, refuses any longer to concern itself with Peter Heylyn’ (p. 1). Unsurprisingly, when most people heard that Anthony Milton was writing about Heylyn their response was ‘What a bastard’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln164 |