Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607-1786 [electronic resource] /
Bell, J.author.
The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- Some Useful Dates -- PART I -- Prologue -- 1. England's Early Imperial Interests: Ireland and Virginia -- 2. The Virginia Company of London and America: Virginia, 1607-1624 -- 3. Virginia and Royal Jurisdiction: Laws, Governors, and Church: 1624-1660 -- PART II -- 4. Churches and Worship -- 5. A Social Profile of Virginia's Ministers, 1607-1700 -- 6. Salaries and Discipline of Seventeenth-Century Clergymen -- 7. Divisions of the English Church in Virginia's Pulpits: Anglicans, Puritans and Nonconformists -- 8. The Libraries of Two Century Seventeenth-Ministers: Anglican John Goodbourne and Nonconformist Thomas Teackle -- PART III -- 9. An Age of New Imperial Policies: Church and State, 1660-1713 -- 10. The Peace Disturbed: Salaries and Controversies, 1696-1777 -- 11. Virginia's Favoured Anglican Church: Faces an Unknown Future: 1776 -- 12. The College of William and Mary: Faces an Unknown Future, 1776 -- Epilogue: A New Age Breaks with the Past -- Appendix I - Clergymen who Arrived in Virginia Between 1607 and 1699 -- Appendix II - Clergymen who Arrived in Virginia by Decades Between 1607 and 1699 -- Appendix III - Colleges and Universities Attended by Seventeenth-century Virginia Clergymen -- Appendix IV - Virginia Parishes and their Ministers in the Seventeenth-century -- Bibliography -- Index.
The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.
Virginia Company of London.
Great Britain—History.
History, Modern.
United States—History.
Religion—History.
Philosophy.
Imperialism.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Modern History.
US History.
History of Religion.
History of Philosophy.
Imperialism and Colonialism.