Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Adlington, Hugh

Title Chaplains in early modern England : Patronage, literature and religion
Published Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP
Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP
Contents Chaplains in early modern England: Patronage, literature and religion: HUGH ADLINGTON, TOM LOCKWOOD & GILLIAN WRIGHT; Half Title Page; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on conventions and list of abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood and Gillian Wright; Chapter 2: The roles and influence of household chaplains, c.1600-c.1660: Kenneth Fincham ; Chapter 3: Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility: activities, categories and patterns: David J. Crankshaw
Chapter 4: Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586-1642: Mary Morrissey Chapter 5: Chaplains to embassies: Daniel Featley, anti-Catholic controversialist abroad: Hugh Adlington ; Chapter 6: Poetry, patronage and cultural agency: the career of William Lewis: Tom Lockwood ; Chapter 7: 'His Lordships First, and Last, CHAPLEINE': William Rawley and Francis Bacon: Angus Vine ; Chapter 8: Richard Corbett and William Strode: chaplaincy and verse in early seventeenth-century Oxford: Christopher Burlinson ; Chapter 9: The Isham family and their clergy: Erica Longfellow
Chapter 10: A chaplain and his patron: Samuel Willes and the 7th Earl of Huntingdon: William Gibson Chapter 11: The reluctant chaplain: William Sancroft and the later Stuart Church: Grant Tapsell ; Select bibliography; Index of names
Summary Who were early modern chaplains and what did they do? Chaplains are well known to have been pivotal figures within early modern England, their activities ranging from more conventionally religious roles (conducting church services, offering spiritual advice and instruction) to a surprisingly wide array of literary functions (writing poetry, or acting as scribes and editors). Chaplains in early modern England: Patronage, literature and religion explores the important, but often neglected, contributions made by chaplains of different kinds - royal, episcopal, noble, gentry, diplomatic - to early
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Chaplains -- England -- History -- 17th century
Patronage, Ecclesiastical -- England -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Chaplains
Patronage, Ecclesiastical
Religion
SUBJECT England -- Religion -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043309
England -- Religious life and customs
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lockwood, Tom
Wright, Gillian
Milton, Anthony
Peacey, Jason
Gajda, Alexandra
ISBN 9781526110695
1526110695
9781526110688
1526110687