Table of Contents

Part 1 The book of nature: standing on the shoulders of giants - the intellectual background; "soe suitable to my genius" - an 18th-century education; the microcosm - doctor and anatomies; the macrocosm - new theories of the universe. Part 2 The book of God: the curious itinerary - antiquities and the history of Britain; the long-lost truth - ancient history and the origins of theology; much greater than commonly imagined - Celtic Druids and the universal religion; "I have every been studious in divinity" - archaeology in Defence of Newtoninism; "a truely to-be-respected - the reputation of Dr Stukeley; these learned lives - the influence of Dr Stukeley.

About the Author

DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK is Leverhulme Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Reviews

David Boyd Haycock's excellent biography ably demonstrates that there was much more to Stukeley than stone circles. [It is] a work that on the one hand uses an impressive range of printed and underexploited manuscript sources and on the other brings to Stukeley's career a sophisticated historical analysis that places its subject firmly in his intellectual and religious worlds.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

The major theme to Haycock's study is the reconstruction of the intellectual background which shaped the development of Stukeley's thought and influenced the direction of his studies and his interpretation of the evidence... A long overdue re-assessment. HISTORICAL JOURNAL An exemplary work of intellectual history, a revisionist biography and something of a 'rescue archaeology' for Stukeley himself and for the subject of antiquarian studies. HISTORY [This] massively researched and clear-headed biography is a spectacular exercise in interdisciplinarity. CHURCH TIMES Supplies us with much new information about Stukeley's life and activities. JNL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY A welcome addition to the literature on this learned physician and cleric.... [This] well-rounded study significantly extends our understanding of Stukeley. BRITISH JOURNAL for the HISTORY OF SCIENCE. A judicious, sensitive, and rewarding book which describes Stukeley's own ideas and their intellectual context.. A fine biography and a fine work of intellectual history.
*SOUTHERN HISTORY*