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Joseph Hall

Joseph Hall

Author Biography & Works

Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.

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Books by Joseph Hall

Mundus Alter Et Idem

Mundus Alter Et Idem

Usually translated as "Another World and yet the Same", Bishop Hall's book has been claimed as the first anti-utopia. Coming less than a century after Thomas More wrote his seminal...

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