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Department of History

The Confessional State?

Suggested Reading

  • R. J. Brown, Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. London: Routledge, 1991
  • J.C.D. Clark, English Society, 1688-1832 (1985) and 2nd ed. (2000)
  • J.C.D. Clark, 'Englands ancien regime as a confessional state', Albion, 1989
  • T. Claydon, 'The Sermon and the Public Sphere', in The English Sermon Revised. Religion, Literature and History 1600-1750, edited by L A Ferrell and P McCullough, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp 208-33
  • R. Currie, A. Gilbert and L. Horsley, Churches and Churchgoers: patterns of church growth in the British Isles since 1700 (1977)
  • Richard Davis, 'The politics of the confessional state?', Parliamentary History, 1990
  • W. Gibson, Church, State and Society 1760-1850 (1994)
  • W. Gibson, The achievement of the Anglican church, 1689-1800 : the confessional state in eighteenth century England (1995)
  • Jeremy Gregory, Restoration, Reformation, and reform, 1660-1828 : archbishops of Canterbury and their diocese (2000)
  • B. Hilton, The Age of Atonement: the Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought 1785-1865 (1991)
  • R. J. Hole, Pulpits, politics and public order in English Society 1760-1832 (1989)
  • John Money, 'Provincialism and the English "ancien regime" : Samuel Pipe-Wolferstan and "the confessional state", 1776-1820', Albion, 1989
  • P. B. Nockles, The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship 1760-1857 (1994)
  • D. A. Spaeth, The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 (2000)
  • Andrew Thompson, 'Early eighteenth-century Britain as a confessional state', in Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms, Cultures of Power in Europe (2010)
  • J. Walsh, C. Haydon and S. Taylor (eds), The Church of England c.1689-c.1833 (1993)

Sources

the Three Pillars of the Church