Contributor
Aston, Nigel, editor.
ImprintCardiff : University of Wales Press, 2023.
Imprint2023
Descriptionxiv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note:Securing the mitre: the promotion and progress of a bishop / Nigel Aston -- Lord bishops: the episcopate in national politics / Ruth Paley -- Bishops and the monarchy / G.M. Ditchfield -- Pastors of their flock: visitation, ordination, confirmation / Colin Haydon -- Authority, conflict and consensus: bishops, their clergy and diocesan government / William Gibson -- Bishops and patronage / Daniel Reed -- Mrs Proudie's predecessors: the wives of eighteenth-century prelates / Nigel Aston -- Priestcraft, enthusiasm, bishops and eighteenth-century intellectual life / Robert Ingram -- Bishops and the reformation of the arts: disciplining the errant sentiments / Matthew Craske -- Anglican bishops in Wales / John Morgan-Guy -- The other establishment: bishops in the Church of Ireland / Toby Barnard -- Episcopacy in Scotland 1689-1792 / Rowan Strong -- English bishops, the wider world and the other Christian churches / Ted Campbell.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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 had wives and families. All of these themes are discussed, and Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the American colonies receive specific examination." --Back cover.
