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12%OFFRichard Hooker - Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity - 9780674632165 - V9780674632165
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Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

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Description for Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Hardcover. Series: Folger Library of the Works of Richard Hooker. Num Pages: 332 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 667.

We turn to Richard Hooker to understand the intellectual background of the Renaissance. He sets forth in his writing the ethical, political, and religious assumptions of his age. This magnificent old-spelling edition of Hooker’s works has long been needed, and is being greeted with universal admiration.

Volume Four presents the text of the first and only major attack on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity—namely, A Christian Letter, 1599—with Hooker’s marginal notes made on his own copy of the Letter; and the more extensive essays which he left in manuscript, written in preparation for a published reply. The importance of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Series
Folger Library of the Works of Richard Hooker
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674632165
SKU
V9780674632165
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About Richard Hooker
W. Speed Hill was Associate Professor of English at Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York.

Reviews for Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
Volumes worthy to stand next to the other great monuments of modern editing of English Renaissance literature… Thanks to the new edition a full assessment of Hooker will now be possible.
Queen’s Quarterly
A triumph… The scholarship is professional, the introductory material helpful, and the text itself both accurate and attractive. Indeed, this is the most inviting edition ... Read more

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