In his own age Lancelot Andrewes was well known as a churchman, a controversialist, and, above all, an extraordinary preacher at the courts of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. With Richard Hooker he was the architect of the Church of England, steering...

As his early biographers and eulogizers (including George Herbert and John Milton) attest, Lancelot Andrewes, the grave and erudite Jacobean churchman, came to exemplify the saintly scholar-bishop, still a potent cultural ideal in the first half of the...

WHEN T. S. Eliot revealed in 1928 that the viewpoint of his forthcoming work would be "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, anglo-catholic in religion," (Andrewes ix) many critics were not amused. Or else, like Sherry Mangan, they were very amused indeed: If...

Bishop John Buckeridge altered historical perception of minister Lancelot Andrewes by assuming control of Andrewes' works as his literary executor. Andrewes had gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Buckeridge plagiarized a sermon of Andrewes', and reconstructed Andrewes' canon to portray him as both...