Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century

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This well-written and well-structured study is important. [It] sets the bar for writing about a somewhat neglected archbishop and his period. * THE SCRIBLERIAN * Ingram's scholarly and persuasive book is now the leading study of this wide and important field, and will need to be consulted by historians of modernisation and secularisation, as well as of the church. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW * [This] excellent book is a foray into the ongoing dialogue about the nature of eighteenth-century English Church, society and politics. [...] A marvellous window into the eighteenth-century. Ingram's research is meticulous and exhaustive, and his coverage extensive. One gets a tremendous understanding of the Anglican Church and its milieu through this study. [...] A wonderful contribution to the burgeoning literature on eighteenth-century church history. * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY * [This] fine scholarly volume [...] is far more than a biography and amountsto a careful analysis of the Church of England in the middle and later years of the 18th century. Dr Ingram has given us a first-class contextualised treatment of a highly-significant Georgian churchman and produced what will undoubtedly become the standard work on its subject. In doing so he has illuminated the political and ecclesiastical landscape in ways which place his readers heavily in his debt. * PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY * A well-researched and serious biography of a distinguished Hanoverian churchman who fought tigerishly to preserve the Established Church from its enemies. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * It is to be hoped that this well-written book, drawing on extensive reading in contemporary sources and demonstrating wide reading in the cultural, social and political history of the period, will be read by a wide audience. [.] This is an important contribution to eighteenth-century historiography [...]. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY * Uses the career of [the] subject [...] as a key to achieving a deeper understanding of English society and historical development during the eighteenth century. This book is important because it transcends the existing historiography by approaching eighteenth-century religion and society from an entirely new perspective. * SOUTHERN HISTORY * [A] first-rate book. [...] A most distinguished first work that promises very well. Jeremy Black, * ARCHIVES *