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Author: W. M. Jacob (Archdeacon of Charing Cross in the diocese of London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.696kg
ISBN: 9780199213009
ISBN 10: 0199213003
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 06 September 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A very fine book - learned, lucid and wide-ranging. The English Historical Review ...impeccably scholarly study... David Hempton, Times Literary Supplement ...for specialist as well as general readers Jacob has compiled a substantial and interesting body of evidence from a wide range of primary and secondary sources. Graham Gould The Journal of Theological Studies an informative and highly readable study of the clergy of the Anglican Church... Nothern History Like all good books, William Jacob's exceptional study of eighteenth century clergy fills a gap that, until it had been written did not seem so significant; yet after its publication it is clear that historians of the eighteenth century Church have long needed such a book...Jacob has written the definitive scholarly study not just of the clergy in the long eighteenth century, but of the Church as a whole. The book is well-written, persuasively argued and elegantly evidenced. It will be required reading for all serious scholars of eighteenth century religion. William Gibson, Southern History This is a wonderful work of original synthesis. Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, clearly structured, and well written, it tells us so much that students and their teachers have wanted to know, but cannot easily discover other works, about the life and role of the ordinary parish clergy of the Church of England and their relations with their parishioners throughout the very long eighteenth century...I have learnt a great deal from this very fine work of scholarship and exposition. H. T. Dickinson, Expository Times This book is like a well-built Georgian church or refectory: neat, well planned, exact, imposing, and satisfying to visit. Nicholas Orme, Church Times At last! Here is a work of scholarship which uses Parson James Woodforde's Diary as an important source, providing details about clergy in the Church of England in the second half of the eighteenth century...important historical work...it deserves a place in every academic library, will be much appreciated by historians and theologians, and enjoyed by many others. Parson Woodforde Society
Author Information
W. M. Jacob has taught in a number of Church of England theological colleges, and has been a senior administrator in the Church of England. He is currently Archdeacon of Charing Cross in the diocese of London. He has written extensively about religious history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and has been editor of the journal Theology since 1997.
