Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment Jacob Paperback

Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early EnlightenmentAuthor(s): James R. Jacob\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521520164, 978-0521520164\nSynopsis\nCalled 'the most noted person of his age' by Anthony Wood, Henry Stubbe [tel], classicist, polemicist, physician, philosopher and the most important critic of the early Royal Society, has never had a biography. This study seeks to fill that gap, while standing received opinion about him on its head. The older view has it that at the Restoration Stubbe renounced his radical past and became the enemy of scientific progress and a reactionary defender of church and monarchy. Professor Jacob shows instead that Stubbe continued to espouse radical views after 1660 by devious means. Publicly he resorted to a rhetoric of subterfuge, while he let the full extent of his radicalism be known in private conversations at Bath and in an important clande.