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The bishops / Trevor Beeson.
- Title
- The bishops / Trevor Beeson.
- Author
- Beeson, Trevor.
- Publication
- London : SCM, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BX5176 .B43 2002x | Off-site |
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- Description
- 248 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Throughout English history bishops have had a prominent role in both Church and State. Here, Beeson describes many of the greatest and most engaging among them, offering amusing detail and anecdote, as well as considering their significance in the social and ecclesiastical history of their times.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-239) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The aristocrats and the courtiers -- The scholars -- The statesmen -- The prophets -- The pastors -- The controversialists -- The headmasters -- The church reformers -- The social reformers -- The missionaries -- The evangelists -- The odd men out -- The pioneers -- looking ahead.
- ISBN
- 0334028671
- OCLC
- 59450207
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library