Preaching In Eighteenth Century London

Author : Jennifer Farooq
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838715

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Preaching in Eighteenth-century London by Jennifer Farooq Pdf

This book looks at the role of preaching culture in eighteenth-century England. Beyond the confines of churches, preaching was heard at political anniversaries and elections, thanksgiving and fast days, and society and charity meetings, all of which were major occasions on the English political and social calendars. Dozens of sermons were published each year, and the popularity of sermons, both from the pulpit and in print, make them crucial for understanding the role of religion in eighteenth-century society. To provide a broad perspective on preaching culture, this book focuses on print and manuscript evidence for preaching in London. London had a unique combination of preaching venues and audiences, including St. Paul's cathedral, parliament, the royal court, the corporation of London, London-based societies, and numerous parish churches and Dissenting meetinghouses. The capital had the greatest range of preaching anywhere in England. However, many of the developments in London reflected trends in preaching culture across the country. This was a period when English society experienced significant social, religious and political changes, and preachers' roles evolved in response to these changes. Early in the century, preachers were heavily engaged in partisan politics. However, as these party heats waned, they increasingly became involved with societies and charities that were part of the blossoming English urban culture. The book also explores the impact of sermons on society by looking at contemporary perceptions of preaching, trends in the publication of sermons, the process of the publication and the distribution of sermons, and the reception of sermons. It demonstrates how preachers of various denominations adapted to an increasingly literate and print-centred culture and the continuing vitality of oral preaching culture. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of religion and sermon literature, but also to those interested in eighteenth-century politics, urban society, oral and print cultures, and publishing. JENNIFER FAROOQ is an independent scholar.

Author : Joris van Eijnatten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047424871

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Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century by Joris van Eijnatten Pdf

This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.

Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : England
ISBN : OXFORD:600092410

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Vignettes of the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century by Edwin Paxton Hood Pdf

Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385416482

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The Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century by Edwin Paxton Hood Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Abigail Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300228106

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The Social Life of Books by Abigail Williams Pdf

“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post

Author : John Henry Overton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Religion
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5NP3

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The Evangelical Revival in the Eighteenth Century by John Henry Overton Pdf

Author : George Lacey May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : WISC:89097209225

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Some Eighteenth Century Churchmen by George Lacey May Pdf

Author : Warren Johnston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273584

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National Thanksgivings and Ideas of Britain, 1689-1816 by Warren Johnston Pdf

Examines sermons preached at national thanksgiving celebrations to show in detail what it meant to be properly British in the period.

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786830555

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Religion, Loyalty and Sedition by William Gibson Pdf

The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which religious issues were at the forefront in people’s minds. This collection of essays were among the papers delivered at conferences in 2014 to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, held at Oxford Brookes University and Bath Spa University. They reflect some of the major issues that were evident in the period before, during and after 1714. In particular, they deal with how disloyalty was managed by the government and by individuals. They also demonstrate how central religion was to the process of securing the Hanoverian Succession and to the identity of the new regime established by George I. Disloyalty – real or imagined – was apparent in legal suits, in sermons and preaching, and in the material culture of the period. And once the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 had been overcome, the need to secure the loyalty of the Church and clergy was a key objective of the government.

Author : Robert Ellison,John Morgan-Guy,Bob Tennant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199583591

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The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901 by Robert Ellison,John Morgan-Guy,Bob Tennant Pdf

The period 1689-1901 was 'the golden age' of the sermon in Britain. It was the best selling printed work and dominated the print trade until the mid-nineteenth century. Sermons were highly influential in religious and spiritual matters, but they also played important roles in elections and politics, science and ideas and campaigns for reform. Sermons touched the lives of ordinary people and formed a dominant part of their lives. Preachers attracted huge crowds and the popular demand for sermons was never higher. Sermons were also taken by missionaries and clergy across the British empire, so that preaching was integral to the process of imperialism and shaped the emerging colonies and dominions. The form that sermons took varied widely, and this enabled preaching to be adopted and shaped by every denomination, so that in this period most religious groups could lay claim to a sermon style. The pulpit naturally lent itself to controversy, and consequently sermons lay at the heart of numerous religious arguments. Drawing on the latest research by leading sermon scholars, this handbook accesses historical, theological, rhetorical, literary and linguistic studies to demonstrate the interdisciplinary strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to religious life in this period.

Author : Joseph Hone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192543813

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Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne by Joseph Hone Pdf

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about Anne's right to the throne were crucial to the construction of nascent party political identities. Literary texts were the principal vehicle through which contemporaries debated the new queen's legitimacy. This book sheds fresh light on canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison by setting their writing alongside the work of lesser known but nonetheless important figures such as John Tutchin, William Pittis, Nahum Tate, John Dennis, Henry Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, and other anonymous and pseudonymous authors. Through close historical analysis, it shows how this new generation of poets, preachers, and pamphleteers transformed older models of succession writing by Milton, Dryden, and others, and imbued conventional genres such as panegyric and satire with their own distinctive poetics. By immersing the major authors in their milieu, and reconstructing the political and material contexts in which those authors wrote, Literature and Party Politics demonstrates the vitality of debates about royal succession in early eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Penelope J. Corfield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300265064

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The Georgians by Penelope J. Corfield Pdf

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life—politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People’s responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.

Author : Bruce Buchan,Peter Denney,Karen Crawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317052500

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Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850 by Bruce Buchan,Peter Denney,Karen Crawley Pdf

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the contributors show, understanding changing perceptions and valuations of noise and sound allows us to chart how civility was understood in the context of significant political, social and cultural change, including the development of urban life, the extension of empire and the consolidation of legal procedure. Divided into three parts, Sound, Space and Civility in the British World demonstrates how both noise and sound could be recognized by eighteenth-century Britons as expressions of civility. The essays also explore the audible implications of uncivil conduct to complicate our understanding of the sonic range of politeness. The uses of sound and noise to interrogate British colonial anxieties about the distinction between civility and incivility are also investigated. Taken together, the essays identify the emergence of civility as a development that radically altered sonic attitudes and experiences, producing new notions of what counted as desirable or undesirable sound.

Author : Laura Miller
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813941264

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Reading Popular Newtonianism by Laura Miller Pdf

Sir Isaac Newton’s publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain. Concepts such as attraction and extrapolation—detailed in his landmark monograph Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica—found their way into both scientific and cultural discourse. Understanding the trajectory of Newton’s diverse critical and popular reception in print demands consideration of how his ideas were disseminated in a marketplace comprised of readers with varying levels of interest and expertise. Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Informed by sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to his reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, Miller analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well as readers traced through the New York Society Library's borrowing records. Many of the works considered—including encyclopedias, poems, and a work written "for the ladies"—are not scientifically innovative but are essential to eighteenth-century readers’ engagement with Newtonian ideas. Revising the timeline in which Newton’s scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture, Reading Popular Newtonianism is the first book to interrogate at length the importance of print to his consequential career.

Author : David Hempton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857720160

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The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century by David Hempton Pdf

David Hempton's history of the vibrant period between 1650 and 1832 engages with a truly global story: that of Christianity not only in Europe and North America, but also in Latin America, Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe, India, China, and South-East Asia. Examining eighteenth-century religious thought in its sophisticated national and social contexts, the author relates the narrative of the Church to the rise of religious enthusiasm pioneered by Pietists, Methodists, Evangelicals and Revivalists, and by important leaders like August Hermann Francke, Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley. He places special emphasis on attempts by the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and British seaborne powers to export imperial conquest, commerce and Christianity to all corners of the planet. This leads to discussion of the significance of Catholic and Protestant missions, including those of the Jesuits, Moravians and Methodists. Particular attention is given to Christianity's impact on the African slave populations of the Caribbean Islands and the American colonies, which created one of the most enduring religious cultures in the modern world. Throughout the volume changes in Christian belief and practice are related to wider social trends, including rapid urban growth, the early stages of industrialization, the spread of literacy, and the changing social construction of gender, families and identities.