'Full of all knowledg' : George Herbert's Country parson and early modern social discourse / / Ronald W. Cooley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455501403321
• Autore: Cooley Ronald Wayne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-282-02324-1; 9786612023248; 1-4426-7512-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: The Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England
• Disciplina: 253
• Soggetti: Pastoral theology - History of doctrines - 17th century; Rural clergy - England - History - 17th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Country Parson and the Early Stuart Church -- 3.The Country Parson and the Enclosure of Professional Fields -- 4. The Country Parson and the Parson's Country -- 5. Pastor as Patriarch: Gender, Family, and Social Order in The Country Parson -- 6. The Country Parson and The Temple: Enabled Readings -- 7. Modernity, Teleology, and The Country Parson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 through four distinct lenses, each representing the perspective of a particular historical sub-specialty: 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 knowledge,' and who counsels parishioners 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 to Herbert's work and provides a valuable tool for future study of Herbert and seventeenth-century culture and history.