Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Preface
- Introduction: the historiographical problem
- 1 Hobbesian Independent
- 2 Republican Independent
- 3 Surreptitious naturalism: the invention of a new rhetoric
- 4 ‘Mahometan Christianity’: Stubbe's secular historicism
- 5 Aristotle on the ale-benches
- 6 Court pen: ‘ancient prudence’ and royal policy
- 7 Court to country
- 8 Civil religion and radical politics: Stubbe to Toland
- Epilogue: the paganizing thread
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index
Epilogue: the paganizing thread
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Preface
- Introduction: the historiographical problem
- 1 Hobbesian Independent
- 2 Republican Independent
- 3 Surreptitious naturalism: the invention of a new rhetoric
- 4 ‘Mahometan Christianity’: Stubbe's secular historicism
- 5 Aristotle on the ale-benches
- 6 Court pen: ‘ancient prudence’ and royal policy
- 7 Court to country
- 8 Civil religion and radical politics: Stubbe to Toland
- Epilogue: the paganizing thread
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index
Summary
The peregrination of Stubbe's manuscript in the eighteenth century did not end quite with Toland. Charles Hornby had possessed two copies since 1705, and when after his death his library was sold, they were sold with it. These two manuscripts turned up next, with one other copy, in 1817 in the sale catalogue of the great eighteenth-century library belonging successively to Thomas Hollis, Thomas Brand Hollis and John Disney - all episcopal Unitarians. It is highly possible that Thomas Hollis, the first of those men and the one most responsible for building the collection, had purchased the Stubbe manuscripts offered in the sale of Hornby's library in 1739 or shortly after, as the manuscripts would have appealed to Hollis's reading and collecting tastes. Like Stubbe, he was interested in the question of historical change and sought the reasons for it. He was not only a Unitarian but a champion of anticlericalism and republicanism and an avid collector of books on both themes.
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- Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment , pp. 161 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983