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"George Herbert is best known as a seventeenth-century sacred poet, often associated with such writers as John Milton and John Donne, but it is Herbert's portrait of an idealized rural clergyman in The Country Parson which perhaps best shows Herbert's engagement in a wide range of complex social debates. In 'Full of all knowledg,' Ronald Cooley examines the 1632 pastoral manual thorough four distinct lenses, each representing the perspective of a particular historical subspeciality: church history, the history of the 'learned professions' (law and medicine), local and agricultural history, and the history of the patriarchal nuclear family." "Cooley argues that in Herbert's portrait of the clergyman who is 'full of all knowledg,' and who counsels parisioners on matters of faith, law, health, agriculture, and family obligation, Herbert engages with contemporary cultural and social ideals, and offers today's scholar a unique opportunity for synthetic literary-historical study. Through his investigation of The Country Parson and a selection of Herbert's later poems, Cooley shows how traditionalist rhetoric and appeals to customary wisdom facilitated innovative practices in agricultural, professional, social, and domestic affairs, and he provides new illumination of the mental and material world of the seventeenth- century cleric and poet. In positioning George Herbert as a spokesman for a legal-rational social order, and in placing The Country Parson in its cultural milieu, Cooley reveals a new dimension of Herbert's work and provides a valuable tool for future study of Herbert and seventeenth-century culture and history."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, History of doctrines, Pastoral theology, Political and social views, Rural clergy, Early works to 1900, Early works to 1800, Anglican Communion, Herbert, george, 1593-1633, Priesthood, Pastorale, Communion anglicane, Ouvrages avant 1900, Clergé rural, Ouvrages avant 1800People
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'Full of all knowledg': George Herbert's Country parson and early modern social discourse
2004, University of Toronto Press
in English
0802037232 9780802037237
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Includes bibliographical references: p. [209]-230.
Includes index.
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