Meredith Hanmer And The Elizabethan Church A Clergymans Career In 16th Century England And Ireland First Edition Angela Andreani by Angela Andreani 9780429261077, 0429261071 instant download after payment.

This is the first book-length study of the fascinating life of the clergyman and
scholar of Welsh descent Meredith Hanmer (c.1545–1604). Hanmer became
involved in the key scholarly controversies of his day, from the place of the
Elizabethan Church in Christian history to the role of the 1581 Jesuit mission to
England led by Edmund Campion and Robert Persons. As an army preacher in
Ireland during the Nine Years War, Hanmer campaigned with the most
acclaimed soldiers of his day. He nurtured connections with prominent intellectuals
of his time and with the key figures of colonial government. His own
career as a clergyman was colourful, involving bitter disputes with his parishioners
and recurring aspersions on his character. Surprisingly, no study to
date has centred on this intriguing character. The surviving evidence for Hanmer’s
life and activities is unusually rich, comprising his published writings and a large
body of under-exploited manuscript material. Drawing extensively on archival
evidence scattered across a wide number of repositories, Dr. Andreani’s book
contextualises Hanmer’s clerical activities and wide-ranging scholarship, elucidates
his previously little understood career, and thus enriches our understanding of life,
politics, and scholarship in the Elizabethan church.