Michael Ledger-Lomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1148936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Ledger-Lomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ledger-Lomas |
| SIGNATURE | LEDGER-LOMAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6549-0838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
RichardHolmes, The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief(William Collins, 2025)
Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry
Triumph der Mitte: Die Mässigung der ‘Old Whigs’ und der Aufstieg des Britischen Liberalkonservatismus, 1750–1850, by Matthias Oppermann
Matthias Oppermann’s hefty monograph represents Edmund Burke as the surprising progenitor of a liberal conservative tradition which thrived in early nineteenth-century Britain. Surprising, because James Sack and Emily Jones have claimed that Burke did not offer a usable creed to any political grouping in that period, least of all to conservatives. Although Burke’s Reflections (1790) had made him an anti-French totem to Pittite Tories, his pro-Ame…
‘Daylight upon magic’: Stained Glass and the Victorian Monarchy
This article presents stained glass as an important source of material evidence for attitudes to monarchy in Victorian Britain. It argues that expressions of veneration for Victoria by different religious constituencies were not merely instinctual and affective but considered and erudite. The ways in which different Anglican constituencies in particular marked key moments in Victoria’s reign within their churches made her person and throne a symb…
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast A…
The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain: Household Godliness: Evangelicals and Goods Revisited
Run by the Rev. Augustus Cant, the Rev. Nasal Whine and Soapy Bareface, Esq., the Society for the Distribution of Moral Pocket Handkerchiefs propagated evangelical Protestantism by selling cheap go
Ministers and Ministerial Training
Protestant Dissent was assailed by Anglo-Catholics in England and by the Mercersburg Theologians in the United States for its fissiparous tendencies, sectarian nature, and privileging of emotional conversionism over apostolic order and objective, sacramental religion. Yet this chapter argues that personal conversion was essential to the faith of Dissent and the key to its spirituality, worship, and congregational life. Whether conversion was grad…
Unitarians and Presbyterians: The Nineteenth Century
Methodism was originally a loosely connected network of religious clubs, each devoted to promoting holy living among its members. It was part of the Evangelical Revival, a movement of religious ideas which swept across the North Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the growth and development, character and nature, and consolidation and decline of British Methodism in the nineteenth century from five distinct perspectives.…
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture: How the Dead Live: Relics in Victorian Literature and Culture
Since the autumn of 2015, visitors to the Virginia Woolf Building at King’s College London have been confronted with a life-sized effigy of the writer in the foyer, squeezed into a glassed cabinet
Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain / Excellent Dr Stanley: The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster / James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet / In the Olden…
There is generally throughout the article a want of soundness and coherency, and a puerile and almost girlish affection of tinsel ornament, which, coming from a man of nearly forty, convince me tha
How far did they go? Post-war Roman Catholicism revisited
Ephesus
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Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950
This book considers the use of the Bible by dissenters in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It reconsiders the divided history of Protestantism-dissenters were people drawn together by the belief that they were truer to the Bible than any other Christians, yet still divided by differences in how they read it.
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened a…
The Protestant International
Since the Reformation, the idea of internationalism has broadcast an alluring but intermittent message to Protestants, like a radio station with infectious tunes but a narrow frequency band. Although the Reformation was from its inception a continental and then a transatlantic movement spread by exiles and their books, it is important not to assume but to explain why Protestants developed consciously international structures. For much of the earl…
First‐Century Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century
The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in the Later Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in the Later Nineteenth Century Get access Michael Ledger-Lomas Michael Ledger-Lomas 1Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 173–189, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000770 Published: 01 January 2009
Unitarians and the contradictions of liberal Protestantism in Victorian Britain: The Free Christian Union, 1867-70
Recent research on secularization in later Victorian Britain has emphasized the proliferation of substitute religions as a compensation for the decline in the Church of England's – and by extension Christianity's – intellectual and ethical authority. This article complicates that picture by drawing attention to a group of predominantly Unitarian liberal Protestants who attempted to moderate the privatization of religious belief and the consequent…
Glimpses of the Great Conflict”: English Congregationalists and the European Crisis of Faith, circa 1840–1875
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The Character of Pitt the Younger and Party Politics, 1830–1860
William Pitt the Younger died in 1806 but had a long afterlife in political argument. Historians have argued that a reactionary cult of Pitt in early nineteenth-century toryism died with Catholic emancipation, but this article suggests that invocation of Pitt's character was more widespread and durable, because linked to the assertion and defence of party identities. Whig hostility to Pitt remained strong even in the middle of the nineteenth cent…
Unitarians and Presbyterians: The Nineteenth Century
Methodism was originally a loosely connected network of religious clubs, each devoted to promoting holy living among its members. It was part of the Evangelical Revival, a movement of religious ideas which swept across the North Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the growth and development, character and nature, and consolidation and decline of British Methodism in the nineteenth century from five distinct perspectives.…
The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in the Later Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in the Later Nineteenth Century Get access Michael Ledger-Lomas Michael Ledger-Lomas 1Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 173–189, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000770 Published: 01 January 2009
The Character of Pitt the Younger and Party Politics, 1830–1860
William Pitt the Younger died in 1806 but had a long afterlife in political argument. Historians have argued that a reactionary cult of Pitt in early nineteenth-century toryism died with Catholic emancipation, but this article suggests that invocation of Pitt's character was more widespread and durable, because linked to the assertion and defence of party identities. Whig hostility to Pitt remained strong even in the middle of the nineteenth cent…
Glimpses of the Great Conflict”: English Congregationalists and the European Crisis of Faith, circa 1840–1875
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
First‐Century Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century
The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in the Later Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in the Later Nineteenth Century Get access Michael Ledger-Lomas Michael Ledger-Lomas 1Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 173–189, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000770 Published: 01 January 2009
Unitarians and the contradictions of liberal Protestantism in Victorian Britain: The Free Christian Union, 1867-70
Recent research on secularization in later Victorian Britain has emphasized the proliferation of substitute religions as a compensation for the decline in the Church of England's – and by extension Christianity's – intellectual and ethical authority. This article complicates that picture by drawing attention to a group of predominantly Unitarian liberal Protestants who attempted to moderate the privatization of religious belief and the consequent…
The Protestant International
Since the Reformation, the idea of internationalism has broadcast an alluring but intermittent message to Protestants, like a radio station with infectious tunes but a narrow frequency band. Although the Reformation was from its inception a continental and then a transatlantic movement spread by exiles and their books, it is important not to assume but to explain why Protestants developed consciously international structures. For much of the earl…
Ephesus
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950
This book considers the use of the Bible by dissenters in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It reconsiders the divided history of Protestantism-dissenters were people drawn together by the belief that they were truer to the Bible than any other Christians, yet still divided by differences in how they read it.
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened a…
Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain / Excellent Dr Stanley: The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster / James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet / In the Olden…
There is generally throughout the article a want of soundness and coherency, and a puerile and almost girlish affection of tinsel ornament, which, coming from a man of nearly forty, convince me tha
How far did they go? Post-war Roman Catholicism revisited
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture: How the Dead Live: Relics in Victorian Literature and Culture
Since the autumn of 2015, visitors to the Virginia Woolf Building at King’s College London have been confronted with a life-sized effigy of the writer in the foyer, squeezed into a glassed cabinet
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast A…
The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain: Household Godliness: Evangelicals and Goods Revisited
Run by the Rev. Augustus Cant, the Rev. Nasal Whine and Soapy Bareface, Esq., the Society for the Distribution of Moral Pocket Handkerchiefs propagated evangelical Protestantism by selling cheap go
Ministers and Ministerial Training
Protestant Dissent was assailed by Anglo-Catholics in England and by the Mercersburg Theologians in the United States for its fissiparous tendencies, sectarian nature, and privileging of emotional conversionism over apostolic order and objective, sacramental religion. Yet this chapter argues that personal conversion was essential to the faith of Dissent and the key to its spirituality, worship, and congregational life. Whether conversion was grad…
Unitarians and Presbyterians: The Nineteenth Century
Methodism was originally a loosely connected network of religious clubs, each devoted to promoting holy living among its members. It was part of the Evangelical Revival, a movement of religious ideas which swept across the North Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the growth and development, character and nature, and consolidation and decline of British Methodism in the nineteenth century from five distinct perspectives.…
‘Daylight upon magic’: Stained Glass and the Victorian Monarchy
This article presents stained glass as an important source of material evidence for attitudes to monarchy in Victorian Britain. It argues that expressions of veneration for Victoria by different religious constituencies were not merely instinctual and affective but considered and erudite. The ways in which different Anglican constituencies in particular marked key moments in Victoria’s reign within their churches made her person and throne a symb…
Triumph der Mitte: Die Mässigung der ‘Old Whigs’ und der Aufstieg des Britischen Liberalkonservatismus, 1750–1850, by Matthias Oppermann
Matthias Oppermann’s hefty monograph represents Edmund Burke as the surprising progenitor of a liberal conservative tradition which thrived in early nineteenth-century Britain. Surprising, because James Sack and Emily Jones have claimed that Burke did not offer a usable creed to any political grouping in that period, least of all to conservatives. Although Burke’s Reflections (1790) had made him an anti-French totem to Pittite Tories, his pro-Ame…
Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry
RichardHolmes, The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief(William Collins, 2025)
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