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Jon Stobart, FRHS, is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the author of The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020), editor of A Taste for Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Johanna Ilmakunnas, General Editor of A Cultural History of Shopping, 6 volumes (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor, with Christopher J. Berry, of A Cultural History of Luxury in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is also editor of Global Goods and the Country House (2023), author of Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022) and co-author of Consumption and the Country House (2016).
An impressive and ground-breaking book, integrating for the first time the material and moral lives of the eighteenth century parson ... meticulously researched and based on an extensive array of sources. Essential reading for scholars of religion and material culture. * William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University, UK * A major contribution, addressing an important yet understudied topic – the parish clergy in the long eighteenth century – by placing them within a well-developed literature on consumption, domestic space, material culture, and the history of religion ... It is sure to become a standard source. * Stephen G. Hague, Rowan University, USA * Jon Stobart draws a richly textured portrait of the clergy in Georgian England. His landmark study is an enjoyable and necessary reading of clergymen’s identities, social practices, everyday routines, consumption, and material culture of home and household in the long eighteenth century. * Johanna Ilmakunnas, Åbo Akademi University, Finland *
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