Stevenson, Emily Laura orcid.org/0000-0002-6814-0478 (2023) Captaining Men's Souls : Richard Hakluyt's Ministerial Works. Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies. pp. 92-110. ISSN 1477-4658
Abstract
Richard Hakluyt, author of the major geographic compendium The Principal Navigations (1589; 1598–1600) spent much of his life in service to the English church, describing himself late in his career as ‘one publikely and anciently devoted to God's service’. Despite this, his religious profession has often been viewed within scholarship as secondary to his geographic work, and the apparent absence of any explicitly religious writings has made the details of his own beliefs difficult to ascertain. This article sheds fresh light on both Hakluyt's religious beliefs and their importance to his geographic works through analysis of previously unexamined manuscript notes form the early 1580s. These notes cover a lecture focusing on the third article and a sermon exhorting the need for ministerial vocations, both given by Hakluyt while at the University of Oxford, and offer insight into his religious beliefs. The analysis offered in this article demonstrates the integral importance of religion to Hakluyt's geographic work while simultaneously locating him within a wide continental network of theologians and writers to reassess the impact and reach of his ministerial role.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2023 23:20 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2024 01:23 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12820 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12820 |
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