The Last of the Prince Bishops

The Last of the Prince Bishops

Author: Elizabeth A. Varley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521892315

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Examines the influential High Church 'Hackney Phalanx' and opens up a little-explored area of Anglican history.


Aspects of Anglican Identity

Aspects of Anglican Identity

Author: Colin Podmore

Publisher: Church House Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780715140741

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A collection of essays exploring the underlying issues facing the Anglican Communion and setting them in their historical context, including the roles of synods, bishops and primates; the ministry of the Archbishop of Canterbury; being in and out of communion; and, the significance of diocesan boundaries in an age of globalization.


A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal

A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal

Author: Mary Hollingsworth

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 9004415440

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The first comprehensive overview of its subject in any language. Its thirty-five essays explain who cardinals were, what they did in Rome and beyond, for the Church and for wider society.


Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century

Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century

Author: Robert M. Andrews

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9004293795

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Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807, by Robert M. Andrews, is the first full-length study of Stevens’ life and thought. Historiographically revisionist and contextualised within a neglected history of lay High Church activism, Andrews presents Stevens as an influential High Church layman who brought to Anglicanism not only his piety and theological learning, but his wealth and business acumen. With extensive social links to numerous High Church figures in late Georgian Britain, Stevens’ lay activism is shown to be central to the achievements and effectiveness of the wider High Church movement during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.


Between Opposition and Collaboration

Between Opposition and Collaboration

Author: Richard Ninness

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-09-09

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9004211918

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This study of the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg and its largely Protestant aristocracy demonstrates that shared family ties and traditional privilege could reduce religious based conflict. These findings raise fundamental questions about current interpretations of the Reformation era. Prince-bishops regularly appointed Lutheran nobles to administrative positions, and those Lutheran appointees served their Catholic overlords ably and loyally. Bamberg was a center for social interaction, business transactions, and career opportunities for aristocrats. As these nobles saw it, birthright and kinship ties made them suitable for service in the prince-bishopric. Catholic leaders concurred, confessional differences notwithstanding. This study tells the complicated story of how Lutheran nobles and their Catholic relatives struggled to maintain solidarity and cooperation during an era of religious strife and animosity


Princes of the Church

Princes of the Church

Author: David Rollason

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-06-14

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1351859412

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The aim of the volume is to bring together the latest research on the importance of bishops’ palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology. It is structured in three sections: design and function, landscape and urban context, and architectural form and includes contributions from the late Antique period through to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, considering bishops’ residences in England, Scotland, Wales, the Byzantine Empire, France, and Italy.


Lands End to John O'groats with a Bus Pass and a Dog

Lands End to John O'groats with a Bus Pass and a Dog

Author: Eric Newton

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1456796763

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The book is an account of a journey using local service buses from Lands End in the deepest south west of England up to John OGroats in the far north east of Scotland. With the issue of free bus passes to all British citizens over the age of sixty, the author decided to maximise the use of his in undertaking this 1,230 mile trip. By way of being different, the author decided to take with him, his dog Archie, a Jack Russell / cairn terrier cross, as he too enjoys travelling. The book is not just a travel log across and up the length of Britain, but includes much historical and general information of towns and cities visited with time taken at the various stop-over points to look around and explore. In addition to the exploits of the authors dog, the book contains his thoughts and observations during the journey. Some of these are referred to as Rants made on the authors own admission as being a grumpy old man. The detailed planning and preparation of the trip is explained that deliberately took in many historic towns and cities. From Penzance, the route traverses England through Exeter, Bath Oxford, Leicester, Lincoln and then across the Humber and up the east coast by Scarborough, Durham, Newcastle and onto Berwick before crossing the border into Scotland. From here on, the bus journey followed the east coast through Edinburgh, over the Firth of Forth to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dornoch and Wick before reaching their final destination at John OGroats. The book has been written in a light vein and contains an element of humour. Hopefully, the reader will become a little more knowledgeable about this historic and beautiful island of ours by the end. It is certainly true that travel does broaden the mind.


A Tall Man In A Low Land

A Tall Man In A Low Land

Author: Harry Pearson

Publisher: Abacus

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0349139725

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Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of legendary banality: Belgium. But can any nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a small boy urinating really be that dull? Pearson lived there for several months, burying himself in the local culture. He drank many of the 800 different beers the Belgians produce; ate local delicacies such as kip kap (jellied pig cheeks) and a mighty tonnage of chicory and chips. In one restaurant the house speciality was 'Hare in the style of grandmother'. 'I didn't order it. I quite like hare, but had no wish to see one wearing zip-up boots and a blue beret.' A TALL MAN IN A LOW LAND commemorates strange events such as The Festival of Shrimps at Oostduinkerke and laments the passing of the Underpant Museum in Brussels. No reader will go away from A TALL MAN IN A LOW LAND without being able to name at least ten famous Belgians. Mixing evocative description and low-grade buffoonery Harry Pearson paints a portrait of Belgium that is more rounded than a Smurf after a night on the mussels.


The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir

The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir

Author: Honor Moore

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-05-18

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0393344215

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“An eloquent argument for speaking even the most difficult truths.” —New York Times Book Review Paul Moore’s vocation as an Episcopal priest took him— with his wife, Jenny, and their family of nine children—from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop’s Daughter is his daughter’s story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets.