The former revolutionary John Owen (1616–83) did not abandon his political radicalism after the Restoration. Focusing primarily on evidence from 1679 to 1681, this article draws together governmental depositions, election reports, published and unpublished sermons, and new manuscript evidence concerning Owen’s associates. It argues that Owen was more closely connected to anti-Catholic conspiracy networks and that his willingness to contemplate forms of active resistance developed earlier than previously recognised. Read together, these sources reveal how Owen’s interpretation of providence, judgement, reformation and a Catholic succession informed his response to one of late Stuart England’s most volatile political crises.
This article explores the nature of ‘spiritual health’ as an important aspect of medieval preventative healthcare. Focusing on prescriptive and practical advice to crusaders and pilgrims, including the understudied thirteenth-century Regimen iter agentium vel peregrinantium of Adam of Cremona, composed for the Emperor Frederick II, the article argues that mobile populations like crusaders were well-informed about the holistic nature of health. It demonstrates that spiritual and physical health were aligned in medieval medical theory, and together shed important light on the nature of preventative healthcare among medieval mobile populations.
This article presents the first full study of the writing and reception of John Taylor Coleridge’s Memoir of John Keble (1869), based on archival materials in the Coleridge family papers. The Memoir is a complex work shaped by Coleridge’s friendship with Keble, his wish to protect Keble’s reputation, and his private conflicts with his sons over the legacy of the Oxford Movement. Later biographers have been profoundly influenced by the Memoir , inheriting Coleridge’s priorities without recognising them. Understanding it as a historical document, rather than simply as a biographical source, is the necessary first step towards a fuller account of its subject.
