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Parish churches [ Institutions ]

… Abstract Parish churches have provided key places of sociability from the Middle Ages to the present. Particularly in premodern times, … of the long-term evolution of interiors and the highly contested arrangements for seating and burial locations within churches. Places > Institutions Keywords Religion Churches culture Assemblies Architecture Space Towns Villages Politics Hierarchy Sacraments ‘It is difficult for today’s …

Vestries [ Religious Belief ]

… and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies.   Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Religion Churches Communities Finances Local Government Corruption England Officials America Historical evolution From the late … Christianity shouldered a set of canonical duties, typically relating to the building and maintenance of their parish churches and the provisions of items required for worship. Lay representatives chosen for terms of 1-2 years – referred … the seventeenth century, English and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies.   … Religion … Churches … Communities … Finances … Local Government … Corruption … England … Officials … America … Vestries …

Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]

… sociability and started controversies on the place of individual and collective discipline within the Established Churches in Britain. Methodist leaders insisted on the necessity of organising little societies for religious practices … Abingdon Press, 2011), p. 136. In the first half of the eighteenth century, many bishops considered that the established Churches in England, Wales and Ireland were an ideal via media between the horrors of Catholicism and of Puritanism that … guaranteeing moderation and social concord above all. During Sunday services, sermons were mostly read aloud in parish churches by the clergyman, and religious practice tended to be dull, as noted by Richard Steele in the first years of the …

Cant [ Language & Speech ]

… the preaching of Puritans and non-conformists and what was considered by Royalists and defenders of the established Churches as hypocritical perversions of language. In the long eighteenth century, the two meanings co-existed, as …

Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… which immediately leads her on to ‘Another Night – at Mrs Boscawen’s’ where recent sermons at everyone’s preferred churches were discussed, and Lord Chatham’s political courage as well as Samuel Foote’s wit came under scrutiny. 9 …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… far from the usual hypocrisy concerning gentlemanly past-times. As ‘thieves and women of the town are to be found in churches’, and as gentlemen ‘lay wagers on the election of any particular parson’, there is nothing particularly immoral …