Captaining Men's Souls: Richard Hakluyt's Ministerial Works

• Published in: Renaissance studies Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 92 - 110
• Main Author: Stevenson, Emily
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: 16th century; Clergy; Early modern period; early modern travel writing; Geography; Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616); Original; Principal Navigations; Religion; Religious beliefs; Renaissance period; Richard Hakluyt; Travel literature; Writers; Principal Navigations; Richard Hakluyt; early modern travel writing

Richard Hakluyt, author of the major geographic compendium The Principal Navigations (1589; 1598–1600) spent much of his life in service to the English church, describing himself late in his career as ‘one publikely and anciently devoted to God's service’. Despite this, his religious profession...