"A comprehensive survey of the eighteenth-century Anglican episcopate.
The eighteenth-century bishops of the Church of England and its sister communions had immense status and authority in both secular and religious society. In this volume, leading experts offer a comprehensive survey of all things episcopal between the ""Glorious Revolution"" of 1688 and the early nineteenth century, when the Anglican Church enjoyed exclusive establishment privileges in much of Britain. The essays consider the appointment and promotion of bishops, their parliamentary duties, and their relation to Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the American colonies."
Edited by:
Nigel Aston,
William Gibson
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781786839763
ISBN 10: 1786839768
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 06 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Introduction –Nigel Aston & William Gibson THE POLITICS OF CHURCH AND STATE 1. Securing the Mitre: the promotion and progress of a Bishop, Nigel Aston, University of Leicester 2. Lord Bishops: the episcopate in national politics, Ruth Paley, History of Parliament 3. Bishops and the monarchy, Grayson Ditchfield, University of Kent PERFORMANCE 4. Pastors of their flock: visitation, ordination, confirmation, Colin Haydon, University of Winchester 5. Authority, conflict, and consensus: bishops, their clergy, and diocesan government, William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University 6. Bishops and patronage, Daniel Reed, Oxford Brookes University CULTURES 7. Wives and families: the domestic life of bishops, Nigel Aston, University of Leicester & William Gibson Oxford Brookes University 8. Bishops and eighteenth-century intellectual life, Robert Ingram, University of Ohio 9. Bishops, taste and culture, Matthew Craske, Oxford Brookes University BEYOND ENGLAND 10. Anglican bishops in Wales, John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales: Trinity St David. 11. The other establishment: bishops in the Church of Ireland, Toby Barnard, University of Oxford. 12. Episcopacy in Scotland, Rowan Strong, Murdoch University 13. Anglican Bishops, the wider world and the other Christian churches, Ted Campbell, Southern Methodist University Appendix: Episcopal Incomes by Ruth Paley
Nigel Aston is a reader emeritus in early modern history at the University of Leicester and a research associate at the University of York. He is the author of Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-century Britainand Beyond. William Gibson is professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford Brookes University and director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He is the author of Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720.
