The Last of the Prince Bishops
Subtitle: William Van Mildert and the High Church Movement of the Early Nineteenth Century
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780521892315
Subjects: Biography: general; Church of England; History of religion; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christianity - Anglican; Christianity - History - General; History; Religion / Anglicanism; Religion / History; Religion-Christianity - History - General; Religion-History; Van Mildert, William, --1765-1836; Van Mildert, William,--1765-1836; Christianity - Anglicanism
First sentence: The extraordinary career of the last Prince Bishop of Durham, like almost everything else about the early nineteenth-century High Church movement, had its roots in the eighteenth-century circle surrounding William Stevens: an alliance of prosperous lay churchmen from mercantile, financial and legal backgrounds and campaigning High Church clergy.