The Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839

by Sara Slinn

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 Hanoverian England and Wales. It offers insights into the nature and development of the profession generally and into the role that individual bishops played in shaping the staffing of their dioceses. In its exploration of how it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783271752
• ISBN13: 9781783271757
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"