National Thanksgivings and Ideas of Britain, 1689-1816

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

Table des matières

Notes on elements of the text
List of general thanksgiving days
Introduction
Sermons and thanksgiving-day sermons in the long eighteenth century
Thanksgiving-day sermons - purposes and meanings
'The Palladium of our Safety' - Providence and Britain
Political theory and principles
'This Carping Age' - the politics of unity and discord
War
Costs of war and consequences of peace
Commerce and Empire
Anglicanism, dissent, anti-Catholicism, and infidelity
Others and Britons
Conclusion
Appendix A: Preachers' and sermon details
Appendix B: Denominational breakdown of thanksgiving-day-preachers
Appendix C: Main scriptural texts used for thanksgiving-day sermons
Bibliography of primary sources: Thanksgiving-day sermons - by date preached
Bibliography of secondary sources

A propos de l'auteur

WARREN JOHNSTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English and History at Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth Century England (Boydell Press, 2011).

Résumé

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Warren Johnston, Warren (Customer) Johnston
• Edition: Boydell & Brewer
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781783273584
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-358-4
• Pages: 413
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 33 mm
• Poids: 862 g
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Ecrits religieux, prières, recueils de chants, méditations religieuses; Bezug zu Christen und christlichen Gruppen, Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Predigten, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Sermons / Christian, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History