Wall, Anna Victoria orcid.org/0000-0003-4963-4533 (2023) ‘Precept upon precept’: biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs. The Seventeenth Century. pp. 413-424. ISSN 0268-117X
Abstract
In the account of her husband, John’s, final days, Lucy Hutchinson depicts him as a Mosaic figure, dedicated to biblical reading and shown the ‘patterne of [God’s] glorious tabernacle’. This article explores Hutchinson’s record of John’s scriptural study: her list of over seven hundred proofs taken from his Bible and noted in the back of the Memoirs manuscript. Offering the first full study of these notes and their relationship to the biographical account of John’s life, I argue for the importance of understanding them as an intrinsic part of the Memoirs project. Furthermore, this article explores how the curation of these notes has transformed them from an inert list of commonplaces – a straightforward record of John’s scriptural reading – into doctrinal ‘precepts’ designed to preserve the Hutchinson family’s theological independence and codify ecclesiastical practices which resist the authority of the Church of England.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). |
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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: | 26 Sep 2023 08:00 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2025 00:33 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2207967 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0268117X.2023.2207967 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203685 |
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