W M Jacob
Biographic Data
| ID | 2013616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W M Jacob |
| GIVEN NAMES | W M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacob |
| SIGNATURE | JACOB W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4368-5335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eighteenth Century Religious Archives and “Lived Religion”
This article discusses the deposit since the 1950s of the Church of England's local and national records, with particular reference to the eighteenth century, in Lambeth Palace Library and elsewhere, especially local authority archive offices. These records illustrate the established Church's engagement during the “long‐eighteenth century,” nationally, regionally and locally, with all levels of English society. The cataloguing and accessibility o…
The Impact of Legislative Reform on Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1836–52, with particular reference to London
This article considers, with particular reference to London, the impact of legislation during the second quarter of the nineteenth century on the churches’ practice of rites of passage in relation to births, marriages and deaths. It investigates the religious, political and social reasons for legislation relating to these rites which many contemporaries and subsequent historians considered an attack on the Church of England and evidence of advanc…
Samuel Wesley and the Tory Crisis of Piety, 1685–1720
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University and a prolific scholar of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English religious history. This study of Samuel Wesley, father of John and Charles, sets him in the context of the tumultuous forty years of what Gibson describes as ‘the long Glorious Revolution’. These years saw the Roman Catholic …
God and Progress. Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett
Anglicanism, Methodism and Ecumenism. A History of the Queen’s and Handsworth Colleges, by Andrew Chandler
The glory of the age we live in’
This article discusses the Church of England's initiative in providing education for the children of the poor during the long eighteenth century with particular reference to London. Briefly it considers the religious, economic and social context and motives for this largely lay-led and lay-supported initiative in the 1690s and early 1700s to establish catechetical day elementary schools, which also taught reading and writing, for poor boys and gi…
The Oxford History Of Anglicanism, Vol. IV
This volume of the Oxford History of Anglicanism dealing with North America, the ‘British Isles’ and Australasia is to be welcomed for providing a distillation of current scholarship about twentieth-century Anglicanism not easily available elsewhere. Rowan Strong, the General Editor, notes in his series introduction that the role of religion, and especially the Church of England, in the British Empire has been only sparsely studied. This series r…
Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859–1929, by Jane Platt
Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century. The Life and Thought of William Stevens 1732–1807, written by Robert M. Andrews
Anglican Clergy Responses to Jewish Migration in late Nineteenth-Century London
When, yearly, on Good Friday, Church of England clergymen prayed:‘Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word: and so fetch them home blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the Israelites’, 99.9 per cent of them in the late nineteenth century had little expectation of encountering a Jew, Turk or Infidel. This paper seeks to e…
The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century
Conscientious Attention to Publick and Family Worship of God’
Households were the basic units of society in England until well into the nineteenth century, providing the focus of much economic activity, as well as education and, as this essay will argue, religious and devotional life. Recent research has revealed the centrality of religious life in the home in early modern England, but the extensive research about eighteenth-century households over the past fifteen years has seldom made reference to the pla…
National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy, 1927–1928
‘… This Congregation here Present …’
Parish churches during the ‘long eighteenth century’ were meeting places for the whole community, elite and popular. Accommodating the hierarchically ordered and theologically aware society of England and Wales in church was not a simple matter. How might the elite and the popular, the squire and his relations, and his groom, and boot boy and the milk maid, and aspiring farmers and attorneys and their wives and sisters and cousins and aunts, alon…
‘In Love and Charity with your Neighbours …’
The aim of this paper is to account for the busyness of the ecclesiastical courts in England during the first half of the eighteenth century, and to suggest why, apart from matters of strictly ecclesiastical business, and defamation, matrimonial and probate causes, their business declined during the second half of the century. The ecclesiastical courts in the first part of the century were a popular part of the lowest level of judicial activity i…
Provision of Books for Poor Clergy Parochial Libraries in the British Isles and the North American Colonies, 1680–1720
For ministers of Word and sacraments in a reformed Church, books were part of their stock-in-trade. By the late seventeenth century books were widely available, and theological books were the staple of the publishing trade. Possession of books distinguished the inventories of deceased clerics whose wills were proved in consistory courts from their lay neighbours, but books were still too expensive for poorer clergy to buy
Lent, Holy Week and Easter
Lambeth 1998
Lay People and Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century
This book investigates the part that Anglicanism played in the lives of lay people in England and Wales between 1689 and 1750. It is concerned with what they did rather than what they believed, and explores their attitudes to clergy, religious activities, personal morality and charitable giving. Using diaries, letters, account books, newspapers and popular publications and parish and diocesan records, Dr Jacob demonstrates that Anglicanism held t…
The Eye of his Master
The aim of this paper is to examine the evidence from a number of charity schools, for attitudes towards the childhood of the ‘poorer sort’ in the early eighteenth century. Conventionally it has been claimed that lack of affection, and even brutality, characterized the relationship between parents, especially fathers, and their children. Lawrence Stone, in particular, has promoted the view that, as a result of the very high mortality rate among c…
Henry Styleman le Strange
The life of Henry Styleman le Strange illustrates a number of significant factors in the development of the Tractarian Movement and its relationship with the arts. He was a devout layman who wished to advance the practice of Tractarian worship and spirituality. He did this by encouraging Tractarian worship in the churches on his estates and by appointing Tractarian clergy to livings of which he was patron. He was himself a distinguished amateur a…
A Practice of a Very Hurtful Tendency’
The church of England in the eighteenth century has been bitterly criticised by succeeding generations for what the high Victorian church of England regarded as two cardinal sins, firstly non-residence of the clergy on their cures and secondly, and consequently, lack of pastoral care. However, generalisations are misleading and especially these generalisations which are largely based on the evidence of opponents of the established church in the e…
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 2: Letters Nos. 462–848
The glory of the age we live in’
This article discusses the Church of England's initiative in providing education for the children of the poor during the long eighteenth century with particular reference to London. Briefly it considers the religious, economic and social context and motives for this largely lay-led and lay-supported initiative in the 1690s and early 1700s to establish catechetical day elementary schools, which also taught reading and writing, for poor boys and gi…
The Eye of his Master
The aim of this paper is to examine the evidence from a number of charity schools, for attitudes towards the childhood of the ‘poorer sort’ in the early eighteenth century. Conventionally it has been claimed that lack of affection, and even brutality, characterized the relationship between parents, especially fathers, and their children. Lawrence Stone, in particular, has promoted the view that, as a result of the very high mortality rate among c…
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 2: Letters Nos. 462–848
A Practice of a Very Hurtful Tendency’
The church of England in the eighteenth century has been bitterly criticised by succeeding generations for what the high Victorian church of England regarded as two cardinal sins, firstly non-residence of the clergy on their cures and secondly, and consequently, lack of pastoral care. However, generalisations are misleading and especially these generalisations which are largely based on the evidence of opponents of the established church in the e…
Henry Styleman le Strange
The life of Henry Styleman le Strange illustrates a number of significant factors in the development of the Tractarian Movement and its relationship with the arts. He was a devout layman who wished to advance the practice of Tractarian worship and spirituality. He did this by encouraging Tractarian worship in the churches on his estates and by appointing Tractarian clergy to livings of which he was patron. He was himself a distinguished amateur a…
The Eye of his Master
The aim of this paper is to examine the evidence from a number of charity schools, for attitudes towards the childhood of the ‘poorer sort’ in the early eighteenth century. Conventionally it has been claimed that lack of affection, and even brutality, characterized the relationship between parents, especially fathers, and their children. Lawrence Stone, in particular, has promoted the view that, as a result of the very high mortality rate among c…
Lay People and Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century
This book investigates the part that Anglicanism played in the lives of lay people in England and Wales between 1689 and 1750. It is concerned with what they did rather than what they believed, and explores their attitudes to clergy, religious activities, personal morality and charitable giving. Using diaries, letters, account books, newspapers and popular publications and parish and diocesan records, Dr Jacob demonstrates that Anglicanism held t…
Lent, Holy Week and Easter
Lambeth 1998
‘In Love and Charity with your Neighbours …’
The aim of this paper is to account for the busyness of the ecclesiastical courts in England during the first half of the eighteenth century, and to suggest why, apart from matters of strictly ecclesiastical business, and defamation, matrimonial and probate causes, their business declined during the second half of the century. The ecclesiastical courts in the first part of the century were a popular part of the lowest level of judicial activity i…
Provision of Books for Poor Clergy Parochial Libraries in the British Isles and the North American Colonies, 1680–1720
For ministers of Word and sacraments in a reformed Church, books were part of their stock-in-trade. By the late seventeenth century books were widely available, and theological books were the staple of the publishing trade. Possession of books distinguished the inventories of deceased clerics whose wills were proved in consistory courts from their lay neighbours, but books were still too expensive for poorer clergy to buy
‘… This Congregation here Present …’
Parish churches during the ‘long eighteenth century’ were meeting places for the whole community, elite and popular. Accommodating the hierarchically ordered and theologically aware society of England and Wales in church was not a simple matter. How might the elite and the popular, the squire and his relations, and his groom, and boot boy and the milk maid, and aspiring farmers and attorneys and their wives and sisters and cousins and aunts, alon…
National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy, 1927–1928
The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century
Conscientious Attention to Publick and Family Worship of God’
Households were the basic units of society in England until well into the nineteenth century, providing the focus of much economic activity, as well as education and, as this essay will argue, religious and devotional life. Recent research has revealed the centrality of religious life in the home in early modern England, but the extensive research about eighteenth-century households over the past fifteen years has seldom made reference to the pla…
Anglican Clergy Responses to Jewish Migration in late Nineteenth-Century London
When, yearly, on Good Friday, Church of England clergymen prayed:‘Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word: and so fetch them home blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the Israelites’, 99.9 per cent of them in the late nineteenth century had little expectation of encountering a Jew, Turk or Infidel. This paper seeks to e…
Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century. The Life and Thought of William Stevens 1732–1807, written by Robert M. Andrews
Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859–1929, by Jane Platt
The Oxford History Of Anglicanism, Vol. IV
This volume of the Oxford History of Anglicanism dealing with North America, the ‘British Isles’ and Australasia is to be welcomed for providing a distillation of current scholarship about twentieth-century Anglicanism not easily available elsewhere. Rowan Strong, the General Editor, notes in his series introduction that the role of religion, and especially the Church of England, in the British Empire has been only sparsely studied. This series r…
Anglicanism, Methodism and Ecumenism. A History of the Queen’s and Handsworth Colleges, by Andrew Chandler
The glory of the age we live in’
This article discusses the Church of England's initiative in providing education for the children of the poor during the long eighteenth century with particular reference to London. Briefly it considers the religious, economic and social context and motives for this largely lay-led and lay-supported initiative in the 1690s and early 1700s to establish catechetical day elementary schools, which also taught reading and writing, for poor boys and gi…
God and Progress. Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett
Samuel Wesley and the Tory Crisis of Piety, 1685–1720
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University and a prolific scholar of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English religious history. This study of Samuel Wesley, father of John and Charles, sets him in the context of the tumultuous forty years of what Gibson describes as ‘the long Glorious Revolution’. These years saw the Roman Catholic …
The Impact of Legislative Reform on Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1836–52, with particular reference to London
This article considers, with particular reference to London, the impact of legislation during the second quarter of the nineteenth century on the churches’ practice of rites of passage in relation to births, marriages and deaths. It investigates the religious, political and social reasons for legislation relating to these rites which many contemporaries and subsequent historians considered an attack on the Church of England and evidence of advanc…
Eighteenth Century Religious Archives and “Lived Religion”
This article discusses the deposit since the 1950s of the Church of England's local and national records, with particular reference to the eighteenth century, in Lambeth Palace Library and elsewhere, especially local authority archive offices. These records illustrate the established Church's engagement during the “long‐eighteenth century,” nationally, regionally and locally, with all levels of English society. The cataloguing and accessibility o…
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