- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: <i>John McManners, Man and Historian</i>
- 1 <i>The Science of Sin: Jacques de Sainte-Beuve and his</i> Cas de conscience
- 2 John Dury and the Practice of Irenicism
- 3 An Irish Opportunist in Paris: Dr Piers de Girardin
- 4 ‘Il fallut même réveiller les Suisses’: Aspects of Private Religious Practice in a Public Setting in Eighteenth-Century Versailles
- 5 A Quest for Peace in the Church: The Abbé A. J. C. Clément's Journey to Rome of 1758
- 6 Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France
- 7 ‘Superstitious enemies of the flesh’? The Variety of Benedictine Responses to the Enlightenment
- 8 Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
- 9 A ‘lay divine’: Burke, Christianity, and the Preservation of the British State, 1790–1797
- 10 The Kirk, the French Revolution, and the Burden of Scottish Whiggery
- 11 Religion according to Napoleon: The Limitations of Pragmatism
- 12 Religious Reactions in Post-Revolutionary French Literature: Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, Joseph de Maistre
- 13 A Not Exclusive Truth: An Early Nineteenth-Century Pastoral Theology and Erasmus
- 14 The Office of Chief Rabbi: A Very English Institution
- 15 ‘A footing beyond Time’: Church, State, and the Individual in Carlyle's Historical Writing
- 16 LʼÉglise, lʼÉtat et lʼUniversité: Les Facultés de Théologie Catholique en France au XIX<sup>e</sup> siècle
- 17 Colonial Church Establishment in the Aftermath of the Colenso Controversy
- 18 The British Ambassador and the Funeral of Pope Pius IX
- 19 Eastern Horizons: Anglicans and the Oriental Orthodox Churches
- Epilogue: The Changing Role of the Ecclesiastical Historian
- Bibliography of John McManners's Works
- Index
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- Source:
- Religious Change in Europe 1650–1914
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This book is a tribute to one of the most influential historians at work today, who has graced the profession for nearly fifty years. It is a symbol of our esteem as his friends and colleagues, with our hopes that he will have many more years yet of scholarship, good health, and happiness. I am deeply grateful to the publishers and to all the contributors for their encouragement and cooperation in the making of this book. I would also like to acknowledge with thanks the help and advice extended to me by John Bourne, Henry Chadwick, John Cowdrey, John Fenton, Eric Heaton, Roger Highfield, Sir Michael Howard, Arthur Middleton, Basil Mitchell, Harry Pitt, John Roberts, Philip Waller, Maurice Wiles, and Blair Worden. Bruce Mansfield and Richard Fargher read over and corrected the introductory chapter in the most painstaking manner. Any inaccuracies left in it are no fault of theirs. Caroline Aston's willing assistance was indispensable, while Tony Morris at OUP provided, as ever, essential advice and support. Finally, it is a great sadness for all of us that Peter Hinchliff, one of the contributors to this book and Jack's successor as Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, died before publication.
Nigel Aston
St Andrew's Day 1995
- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: <i>John McManners, Man and Historian</i>
- 1 <i>The Science of Sin: Jacques de Sainte-Beuve and his</i> Cas de conscience
- 2 John Dury and the Practice of Irenicism
- 3 An Irish Opportunist in Paris: Dr Piers de Girardin
- 4 ‘Il fallut même réveiller les Suisses’: Aspects of Private Religious Practice in a Public Setting in Eighteenth-Century Versailles
- 5 A Quest for Peace in the Church: The Abbé A. J. C. Clément's Journey to Rome of 1758
- 6 Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France
- 7 ‘Superstitious enemies of the flesh’? The Variety of Benedictine Responses to the Enlightenment
- 8 Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
- 9 A ‘lay divine’: Burke, Christianity, and the Preservation of the British State, 1790–1797
- 10 The Kirk, the French Revolution, and the Burden of Scottish Whiggery
- 11 Religion according to Napoleon: The Limitations of Pragmatism
- 12 Religious Reactions in Post-Revolutionary French Literature: Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, Joseph de Maistre
- 13 A Not Exclusive Truth: An Early Nineteenth-Century Pastoral Theology and Erasmus
- 14 The Office of Chief Rabbi: A Very English Institution
- 15 ‘A footing beyond Time’: Church, State, and the Individual in Carlyle's Historical Writing
- 16 LʼÉglise, lʼÉtat et lʼUniversité: Les Facultés de Théologie Catholique en France au XIX<sup>e</sup> siècle
- 17 Colonial Church Establishment in the Aftermath of the Colenso Controversy
- 18 The British Ambassador and the Funeral of Pope Pius IX
- 19 Eastern Horizons: Anglicans and the Oriental Orthodox Churches
- Epilogue: The Changing Role of the Ecclesiastical Historian
- Bibliography of John McManners's Works
- Index
