Between Scholarship and Church Politics
Between Scholarship and Church Politics
The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650
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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.