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Ministerial career. Death and commemoration. Religious views. Writings. Notes and references. Citations. Sources. External links. Samuel Harsnett (or Harsnet) (June 1561 – May 1631), born Samuel Halsnoth, was an English writer on religion and Archbishop of York from 1629. Early life.
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#13 Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603) The fascination with witches and devils—so evident in Shakespeare’s Macbeth—was a result of changes in the religious and economic environment in England.
The skeptic Samuel Harsnett (1599) rejected all belief in witches. See also. Christina Rauscher; References
It is, in very large part, the library of Samuel Harsnett, the son of a Colchester baker, born 1561, a Cambridge student who became Master of his old college, Pembroke (1605-1616), bishop successively of Chichester (1609-17) and of Norwich (1617-29), ending his career as Archbishop of York.
Other influences on Shakespeare's creative imagination can be found in books such as Samuel Harsnett's A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, an attack on Jesuit missionaries and their exploitation of the poor and disadvantaged members of society, printed in 1603.
Overview. Samuel Harsnett. (1561—1631) archbishop of York. Quick Reference. (1561–1631), Protestant chaplain and polemicist who served in 1599 as licenser for books, responsible for censoring seditious material. By authorizing a history which celebrated Essex at the height of the ... From: Harsnett, Samuel in The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare »
