Contents |
Securing the mitre: the promotion and progress of a bishop / Nigel Aston -- Lord bishops: the episcopate in national politics / Ruth Paley -- Bishops and the monarchy / G.M. Ditchfield -- Pastors of their flock: visitation, ordination, confirmation / Colin Haydon -- Authority, conflict and consensus: bishops, their clergy and diocesan government / William Gibson -- Bishops and patronage / Daniel Reed -- Mrs Proudie's predecessors: the wives of eighteenth-century prelates / Nigel Aston -- Priestcraft, enthusiasm, bishops and eighteenth-century intellectual life / Robert Ingram -- Bishops and the reformation of the arts: disciplining the errant sentiments / Matthew Craske -- Anglican bishops in Wales / John Morgan-Guy -- The other establishment: bishops in the Church of Ireland / Toby Barnard -- Episcopacy in Scotland 1689-1792 / Rowan Strong -- English bishops, the wider world and the other Christian churches / Ted Campbell. |