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The Caroline Church Heroic: The Reconstruction of Epic Religion in Three Seventeenth-Century Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Reid Barbour
Reid Barbour*
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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In his biography of Nicholas Ferrar, A.L. Maycock speaks volumes in describing the Ferrar family's transition in 1625 as a movement from one venture (the Virginia Company) to another, the “great adventure” of Little Gidding. In this one phrase Maycock comprehends the view of its founders that no less than the Virginia Company's epic plantation of true religion among the Indians, the community at Little Gidding ranks as a heroic enterprise, the discursive preoccupation of which proves to be the very nature of Christian heroism itself. Even if readers of the Ferrar papers do not know how highly Nicholas Ferrar prized the Acts and Monuments, it is impossible for them to miss the Foxeian narratives of “heroic suffering” so pervasive in the “story books” left as folio records of the dialogues performed by the so-called Little Academy.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1997 , pp. 771 - 818
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1997

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