ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the ways in which the clergyman Thomas Fuller, one of the seventeenth centurys greatest historians, contributes to the period tradition of anti-discovery. Fullers polemic against the radical rejection of history in A Sermon of Reformation and will then turn to his acknowledgement, in A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, of the idolatrous valorization of historical knowledge, at the expense of religious imperatives. On the other hand, for the Puritan habits of thought discussed by Guibbory, history and creation are not to be construed in terms of mediation, continuity, and participation with the divinethat is in Herberts Vanity. The idolatrous potential of antiquarianism is taken up again in Fullers introduction to Pisgah-Sight, albeit with greater immediacy. While prospective critics might construe his work of antiquarian and chorographical study as exhumation or necromancy. Returning now to the tradition of anti-discovery with which this chapter began, Fuller can be linked to the conservatism of Browne and Hall.
