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Joseph Hall

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British bishop and writer (1574-1656)

United KingdomWritersLived 1574 to 1656 · aged 82
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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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The Dolphin Inn, Norwich, in the building where Hall had his palace from 1643 to 1647The Dolphin Inn, Norwich, in the building where Hall had his palace from 1643 to 1647Title page of Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum, 1597.Title page of Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum, 1597.Map from Mundus alter et idem.Map from Mundus alter et idem.

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About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1574 to 1656 · aged 82
Written about in
11 languages

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