The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839

List of contents

Introduction
Recruitment to the Established Church
Episcopal Ordination: policy and practice
The Ordinand and the University
Literate Clergy and the Grammar Schools
Autodidacts, Tutors for Orders and Parish Clerical Seminaries
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Ordination Profiles of Bishops, 1780-1839
Appendix 2: A Note on Methodology
Bibliography

About the author

Sara Slinn

Summary

This study of recruitment to the ministry of the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries overturns many long-standing assumptions about the education and backgrounds of the clergy in late HanoverianEngland and Wales.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Slinn
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2017
• EAN: 9781783271757
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-175-7
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History; Studies in Modern British Reli; Studies in Modern British Religious History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous