| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages :) : illustrations |
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Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain |
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Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright -- The roles and influence of household chaplains, c. 1600-c. 60 / Kenneth Fincham -- Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility : Activities, categories and patterns / David Crankshaw -- Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586-1642 / Mary Morrissey -- Chaplains to embassies : Daniel Featley, Anti-Catholic controversialist abroad / Hugh Adlington -- Poetry, patronage and cultural agency: the career of William Lewis / Tom Lockwood -- 'His lordships first, and last, CHAPLEINE' : William Rawley and Francis Bacon / Angus Vine -- Richard Corbett and William Strode : Chaplaincy and verse in early seventeenth-century Oxford / Christopher Burlinson -- The Isham family and their clergy / Erica Longfellow -- A chaplain and his patron : Samuel Willes and Lord Huntingdon / William Gibson -- The reluctant chaplain : William Sancroft and the later Stuart Church / Grant Tapsell |
| 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 |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaplains -- England -- History
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Domestic chaplains -- Church of England -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Anglican.
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Domestic chaplains -- Church of England
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Chaplains
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, Gillian, 1969- editor.
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Lockwood, Tom, 1975- editor.
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Adlington, Hugh, editor.
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| LC no. |
2012276272 |
| ISBN |
9781526110695 |
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1526110695 |
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9780719088346 |
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0719088348 |
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9781526110688 |
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1526110687 |
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