W. B. Patterson, Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has written widely on British and European history and religion. His publications include King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the Albert C. Outler Prize in ecumenical church history from the American Society of Church History. He is an active member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Patterson puts Fuller's achievements on a par with the great Dr Samuel Johnson and his eighteenth-century dictionary; given this detailed, scholarly biography, few would argue with that

• Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, Uses of the Past, and the New History 1: Education: The Study of History and Theology 2: Apprenticeship: The Holy Warre and Impending Conflict 3: Ordeal: The Holy State, Peacemaking, and Revolution 4: Scholar and Controversialist: Seeking Order amidst Radical Change 5: Writing History: The European and English Contexts 6: Church Historian: The Church-History of Britain 7: Contemporary Historian: The Church-History of Britain 8: The Final Challenges: Restoration and Reaction 9: Social Historian: The History of the Worthies of England Conclusion: Reputation and Significance Bibliography

W. B. Patterson, Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has written widely on British and European history and religion. His publications include King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the Albert C. Outler Prize in ecumenical church history from the American Society of Church History. He is an active member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Patterson puts Fuller's achievements on a par with the great Dr Samuel Johnson and his eighteenth-century dictionary; given this detailed, scholarly biography, few would argue with that

• Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, Uses of the Past, and the New History 1: Education: The Study of History and Theology 2: Apprenticeship: The Holy Warre and Impending Conflict 3: Ordeal: The Holy State, Peacemaking, and Revolution 4: Scholar and Controversialist: Seeking Order amidst Radical Change 5: Writing History: The European and English Contexts 6: Church Historian: The Church-History of Britain 7: Contemporary Historian: The Church-History of Britain 8: The Final Challenges: Restoration and Reaction 9: Social Historian: The History of the Worthies of England Conclusion: Reputation and Significance Bibliography

W. B. Patterson, Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has written widely on British and European history and religion. His publications include King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the Albert C. Outler Prize in ecumenical church history from the American Society of Church History. He is an active member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Patterson puts Fuller's achievements on a par with the great Dr Samuel Johnson and his eighteenth-century dictionary; given this detailed, scholarly biography, few would argue with that

• Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, Uses of the Past, and the New History 1: Education: The Study of History and Theology 2: Apprenticeship: The Holy Warre and Impending Conflict 3: Ordeal: The Holy State, Peacemaking, and Revolution 4: Scholar and Controversialist: Seeking Order amidst Radical Change 5: Writing History: The European and English Contexts 6: Church Historian: The Church-History of Britain 7: Contemporary Historian: The Church-History of Britain 8: The Final Challenges: Restoration and Reaction 9: Social Historian: The History of the Worthies of England Conclusion: Reputation and Significance Bibliography