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Degory Wheare’s Contribution to the Study and Teaching of Ecclesiastical History in England in the Seventeenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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The two great English universities did not consider the study of history to be of sufficient importance to warrant the foundation of specific lectureships until the early seventeenth century. The subject was not considered to be an academic discipline worthy of learned appreciation for its own sake. During the preceding centuries the study of history had been regarded as a most useful adjunct to the study of theology and philosophy. The writings of early historians had been read and, indeed, histories written. Much good work had been done, but on the whole, the study of history had been in the hands of scholars whose main interest lay elsewhere.
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Page 193 of note 1 Nicholas Trevett (1258-1328), for example, especially noteworthy for his treatment of the reign of Edward I. See Thompson, , History of Histori cal Writings, London 1942, 394 Google Scholar.
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Page 195 of note 2 D. Wheare, Method and Order of Reading Histories, 179-224.
Page 195 of note 3 Ibid., 15.
Page 196 of note 1 Ibid., 314.
Page 196 of note 2 Ibid., 31-74.
Page 196 of note 3 Ibid., 75-124.
Page 196 of note 4 Ibid., 131—77.
Page 196 of note 5 Ibid., 225-96.
Page 196 of note 6 Ibid., 297-317.
Page 196 of note 7 Bartholomew Keckerman, born Danzig 1571, died 1609, aged 38; D.D. Heidelberg and Professor of Hebrew, taught at Danzig, wrote various works, especially on Rhetoric; works pubi. Geneva 1614. Biol. Dic., IX, 84; cf. Deutsche Biographie.
Page 196 of note 8 Op. cit., 319—62.
Page 197 of note 1 Wheare appears to have used the 1596 edition of St Augustine, De Civitale Dei, edited by Jacob Stoer. See also English translation by Marcus Dodds, 1871. Wheare cites De Civitate Dei, bk 1, cap. 24; bk 5, 12-13; bk 6, cap 18; bk 19, cap 25; and Ambrose, bk 2, Ep. 8; Jerome, bk 2, Ep. 21.
Page 197 of note 2 Op. cit., 359-60. Sulpicius was born after 353. His Historia Sacra is inaccurate as to Arianism, but gives an important account of Priscillianism, which arose in his own time.
Page 198 of note 1 Ibid., 230 (1685 edn).
Page 198 of note 2 Luke, x, 1.
Page 198 of note 3 Ibid., 236.
Page 199 of note 1 Melchior Cano, Dominican, lectured at University of Salamanca, Opposed the Jesuits, causing their withdrawal from his university. Summoned to Council of Trent by Pope Paul III, 1552. Bishop of the Canaries because Jesuits desired to remove him from Spain. Writings were characterized by independent reasoning. Baronius criticized him for doubting some miracles hitherto unchallenged. His De Locis Tbeologicis urged return to Patristic erudition against Scholastic subtleties. Biog. Dic., V, 508.
Page 199 of note 2 Adversus Nationes or Advenus Gentes, Bk 1 produced c. 303-13.
Page 199 of note 3 Op. cit., 244-50.
Page 200 of note 1 Ibid., 1710 edn, 249.
Page 200 of note 2 Ibid., 1685 edn, 262.
Page 200 of note 3 Nicephorus Callistus (1256-1335) wrote a Church History in 18 books from birth of Christ to death of Phocus, 610. He supports Andronicus II and Greek Orthodoxy in contrast to his predecessor Michael Palaeologus, a lecturer.
Page 200 of note 4 Op. cit., 264.
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Page 202 of note 1 Annales Ecclesiastici; see Smith, op. cit., 385.
Page 202 of note 2 Pietro Soave Polano, anagram of Paolo Sarpio Veneto.
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Page 203 of note 1 op. cit., passim. Brent was Master of Merton College and Archbishop Laud’s Official.