A History of the County of Stafford - Volume III

The ecclesiastical history of Staffordshire provides the content of Volume III. The opening chapter on the Medieval Church traces the early history of Christianity in the area and recounts the struggle for predominance between Lichfield and Coventry. There are separate chapters on the Church of England since the Reformation, Roman Catholicisim, and Protestant Nonconformity; among much else, the last describes the origins in the Potteries of Primitive Methodism. There are also individual accounts of the county 's 40 religious -houses, including Burton Abbey, the College of St. Peter, Wolverhampton, the alien priory of Tutbury, and, most important, Lichfeld cathedral, a house of secular canons where St. Chad was buried.

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• Authors: M. W. Greenslade, M.W. Greenslade
• Assisted by: M. W. Greenslade (Editor), M.W. Greenslade (Editor), Greenslade M.W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1970
• EAN: 9780197227329
• ISBN: 978-0-19-722732-9
• No. of pages: 417
• Weight: 1972 g
• Illustrations: 30 b/w, 2 line illus.
• Series: Victoria County History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history