The Anglican Episcopate 1689-1800

Description

The eighteenth-century bishops of the Church of England and its sister communions had immense status and authority in both secular society and the Church. They fully merit fresh examination in the light of recent scholarship, and in this volume leading experts offer a comprehensive survey and assessment of all things episcopal between the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 and the early nineteenth-century. These were centuries when the Anglican Church enjoyed exclusive establishment privileges across the British Isles (apart from Scotland). The essays collected here consider the appointment and promotion of bishops, as well as their duties towards the monarch and in Parliament. All were expected to display administrative skills, some were scholarly, others were interested in the fine arts, most were married with families. All of these themes are discussed, and Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the American colonies receive specific examination.

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

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Episcopalian
• Anglican
• 18th Century
• Modern
• HISTORY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Reino Unido
• Episcopal Church
• Modern history
• United Kingdom
• History of religions
• History of Europe
• Church of England
• Christianity
• Anglicanism
• Great Britain
• Aston
• Nigel
• Gibson
• William
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Anglicanisme
• 1800
• Royaume-Uni
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786839787
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Anglican Episcopate 1689–1800

The Anglican Episcopate 1689– 1800

Edited by Nigel Aston and William Gibson

© The Contributors, 2023

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Cover image: Peter Tillemans,Queen Anne (1665–1714) in the House of Lords (detail), c.1708–14, oil on canvas © Royal Collection Trust

‘But you would be entreated, and say ‘Nolo, nolo, nolo’ three times like any bishop when your mouth waters at the diocese’

Limberham in John Dryden,The Kind Keeper or Mr Limberham(1678, Act 3, Scene 1.

Preface

List of Contributors

List of Illustrations

Contents

Introduction Nigel Aston and William Gibson

Part I The Politics of Church and State

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Securing the Mitre: the Promotion and Progress of a Bishop Nigel Aston, University of Leicester & University o f York

Lord Bishops: the Episcopate in National Politics Ruth Paley, Oxford Brookes University

Bishops and the Monarchy G. M. Ditchfield, University of Kent

Part II Performance

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Pastors of their Flock: Visitation, Ordination, Con firmation Colin Haydon, University of Winchester and Oxford B rookes University

Authority, Conflict and Consensus: Bishops, their C lergy and Diocesan Government William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University

Bishops and Patronage Daniel Reed, Oxford Brookes University

Part III Cultures

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Mrs Proudie’s Predecessors: the Wives of Eighteenth -Century Prelates Nigel Aston, University of Leicester, and William G ibson, Oxford Brookes University

Priestcraft, Enthusiasm, Bishops and Eighteenth-Cen tury Intellectual Life Robert Ingram, University of Florida

Bishops and the Reformation of the Arts: Disciplining the Errant Sentiments Matthew Craske, Oxford Brookes University

Part IV Beyond England

10 Anglican Bishops in Wales John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

11 The Other Establishment: Bishops in the Church of Ireland Toby Barnard, University of Oxford

12 Episcopacy in Scotland 1689–1792

Rowan Strong, Murdoch University

13 English Bishops, the Wider World and the other Christian Churches Ted Campbell, Southern Methodist University

Appendix: Episcopal Incomes Ruth Paley

Notes

Preface

This collection had its origins in a conviction tha t the time was ripe for a fresh overview of the late Stuart and Georgian episcopate in its many aspects that, collectively considered, would confirm and illustra te its contemporary importance in a range of settings. We are grateful to all the con tributors for their work and regret only that Covid-19 and the restrictions on assembli ng that followed in 2020–2 thwarted our original hope of inviting them to a co lloquium on the subject for an exchange of ideas in person. The editors certainly enjoyed the opportunity that the project offered for working amicably and congeniall y together and finding out once more that collaboration offers a viable template fo r historians to help and prompt each other along. We are heartened by the enthusias m that these several hands have brought to the collection. In many ways, each has suggested that this volume can be seen as a contribution to the continuing rev aluation of the eighteenth- century Church. We are grateful to the University o f Wales Press for its support for the project and the care with which it has seen this book through to publication.

Nigel Aston and William Gibson,JaNuay 2022

Contributors

Nigel Astonwas reader in history at the University of Leicest er, where he is now a research fellow. He is also a research associate at the University of York. His latest book,Enlightened Oxford, will be published in 2023.

Toby Barnardis an emeritus fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. He edited (along with W. G. Neely)sengers,The Clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000: Mes Watchmen and Stewards(Dublin, 2006); his most recent book isBrought to Book: Print in Ireland, 1680–1784(Dublin, 2017).

Ted Campbellis Albert C. Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Southern Methodist University, Texas. He is currently editin g John Wesley’s letters written from 1766–1775 for the bicentennial edition of theWorks of John Wesley.

Matthew Craskeis reader in history of art at Oxford Brookes Univ ersity. His recent bookJoseph Wright of Derby, Painter of Darkness(New Haven CT, 2020) won the prestigious William MB Berger Prize for 2021.

G. M. Ditchfieldis emeritus professor of history at the University of Kent. He is editor ofThe Letters of Theophilus Lindsey, 1747–1808(2 vols, 2007–12) and author of numerous works on religion and politics i n eighteenth-century Britain.

William Gibsonis professor of ecclesiastical history and directo r of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford B rookes University. He has written widely on religion in eighteenth-century En gland, most recentlySamuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720(Oxford, 2021).

Colin Haydonis emeritus reader in early modern history at the University of Winchester and a visiting research fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society. He has published widely on the history of religion in Britain and Ireland from c.1660 to c.1830, and edited, along with John Walsh and Stephen Taylor,The Church of England c.1689– c.1833: From Toleration to Tractarianism(Cambridge, 1993).

Robert G. Ingramis professor of humanities and associate director of the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He is the author ofReformation without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post- Revolutionary of England(Manchester, 2018) and co-editor ofPeople Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity(Manchester, 2022).

John Morgan-Guyis honorary professor of cultural history at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is a fellow of the Ro yal Society of Medicine and of the Society of Antiquaries. He has recently publishedHistory, Society and the Individual(Cardiff, 2021).

Ruth Paleywas formerly a section editor at the History of Pa rliament researching the history of the House of Lords. She is currently a visiting fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

Daniel Reedis public engagement manager and research fellow a t the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Bro okes University. His edition of the minute book of the Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull (1698–1706) has been published as a special issue of theJournal of Religious History, Culture and Literaturein 2022.

Rowan Strongis emeritus professor of church history at Murdoch University, professor of church history at Wollaston Theologica l College in the Anglican Diocese of Perth, and professor of church history a t the University of Divinity,

Melbourne. His research work on colonial Christiani ty in the nineteenth century is currently working towards a biography of John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia.