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Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009 (Hardcover, New)
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Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009 (Hardcover, New)
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Despite its size, Ely has always been one of the most wealthy and
important dioceses in the country. The essays here focus on the
careers of its bishops, with additional chapters on its buildings
and holdings. The diocese of Ely, formed out of the huge diocese of
Lincoln, was established in 1109 in St Etheldreda's Isle of Ely,
and the ancient Abbey became Ely Cathedral Priory. Covering at
first only the Isle and Cambridgeshire, it grewimmensely in 1837
with the addition of Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire and West
Suffolk. The latter two counties left the diocese in 1914, but a
substantial part of West Norfolk was added soon after. Until the
nineteenth century Ely was one of the wealthiest dioceses in the
country, and in every century there were notable appointments to
the bishopric. Few of the bishops were promoted elsewhere; for most
it was the culmination of their career, and manyhad made
significant contributions, both to national life and to
scholarship, before their preferment to Ely. They included men of
the calibre of Lancelot Andrewes in the seventeenth century, the
renowned book-collector John Moorein the eighteenth, and James
Russell Woodford, founder of the Theological College, in the
nineteenth. In essays each spanning about a century, experts in the
field explore the lives and careers of its bishops, and their
families and social contacts, examine their impact on the diocese,
and their role in the wider Church in England. Other chapters
consider such areas as the estates, the residences, the works of
art and the library and archives. Overall, they chart the
remarkable development over nine hundred years of one of the
smallest, richest and youngest of the traditional dioceses of
England. Peter Meadows is manuscript librarian in Cambridge
University Library. Contributors: Nicholas Karn, Nicholas Vincent,
Benjamin Thompson, Peter Meadows, Felicity Heal, Ian Atherton,
Evelyn Lord, Frances Knight, Brian Watchorn
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