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Church Life in Hereford and Oxford - A Study of Two Sees, 1660-1760 (Hardcover)
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Church Life in Hereford and Oxford - A Study of Two Sees, 1660-1760 (Hardcover)
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Hereford and Oxford in the century following the Restoration were
two widely contrasting sees. Hereford was old, dating from ad 676,
and large, sprawling over Herefordshire, half of Shropshire and
small parts of other border counties. The Oxford diocese, on the
other hand, dated from just 1542 and was compact, merely covering
the county of Oxfordshire. This interesting book concerns a
much-overlooked period in history, drawing on little-known original
sources to build a picture of the administration of these disparate
dioceses. There are fascinating insights into the working of the
church courts (which controlled people's lives in a way and to an
extent that would be unacceptable today), portrayals of the key
figures in both sees, and an analysis of diocesan patterns of
welfare and education provision. William Marshall's research also
reveals that there was a strong commitment to repair - or to build
new - places of worship, and to make good the damage caused to
Church infrastructure during the civil wars of the 1640s. The
closing chapters go on to examine the work of the bishops, their
social origins, their academic standards, their efficiency and
diligence. As a group, they certainly cut a more energetic and
conscientious figure than has often been supposed, and for the most
part, the author argues, they were competent men who saw and
acknowledged the weaknesses of the Church and sought to address
them. In a departure from commonly held wisdom, what emerges from
William Marshall's research is that in many places the Church at
the time was very much alive, and even vigorous. Its worst failings
were, he claims, in its social welfare and in the tedium of its
worship for the mass of the people, but here, at this time, it was
certainly neither asleep nor decadent.
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