William Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3137-1096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1803 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Iona Community and the ecumenical movement: External influences and internal changes
This article teases out the relationship between the Iona Community (founded 1938) and the ecumenical movement (both nationally – Scotland and the UK – and internationally), and the steps the Community took to enable itself internally to be more ecumenical. The first part of the article reviews the original brief of the Community – a missional ‘brotherhood’ that would work for the Church of Scotland’s Church Extension Scheme, using the base of th…
Engines of Tyranny: The Court Sermons of James II
This article considers the sermons preached by royal chaplains at the court of James II and the organisation of the chapel royal by James as a Catholic organisation. In doing so, it addresses the question of where James’s assurance and certainty came from that he was ruling as God wished him to do. The evidence presented here is that James organised his Catholic chapel royal to be a conscious source of guidance and support. His chaplains reciproc…
Disneyland z karą śmierci
Pierwszy polskojęzyczny przekład tekstu Williama Gibsona pt. “Disneyland with the Death Penalty”, który ukazał się w czasopiśmie Wired, wrzesień/październik 1993, nr 1.4 (https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/). Niniejsze tłumaczenie - wykonane przez Marzenę Kubisz i Marcina Mazurka - publikujemy za zgodą Autora
Music at the British Court, 1685-1715: The Discord of Politics and Religion
This chapter examines the part played by sacred music in the royal court in England during the reigns of Charles II (1660-1685), James II (1685-1688), William III and Mary II (1689-1702), and Anne (1702-1714). In this period, religious music, in the Chapel Royal and elsewhere, was subject to the deeply divided politics of the period. Charles II and James II favoured Catholicism (James was a Catholic), and music at their courts reflected both thei…
Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England, by Robert Ingram
Teleology and Modernity
Anglican Enlightenment: Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and its Empire, 1648–1715, by William J. Bulman
At the centre of William Bulman’s impressively researched and original book is a re-examination of the Enlightenment in England. Bulman challenges the view that the Enlightenment was the ‘intellectual face’ of the Glorious Revolution. By this he means that the Enlightenment has previously been associated with the steady loosening of clerical strictures. Bulman suggests that this reading cannot be sustained. What he sees in the Anglicanism of the …
Rob Iliffe. Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton
Historians of the eighteenth century find their footsteps dogged by the scientific “Enlightenment”—I almost wrote the “so-called Enlightenment,” since it is such a problematic idea. Its trouble lies principally in the ways in which it has been viewed as a monolithic and homogenizing process that was a universal solvent to all those worrisome things like magic, superstition, and faith. Such views of the Enlightenment offer overly neat solutions. C…
The co-construction of medical disposals in emergency medicine consultations
Mission Raquez: A forgotten ethnographic expedition through Laos in 1905
This paper focuses on Mission Raquez, a French ethnographic expedition through Laos to collect material for the Marseille Colonial Exposition of 1906. This paper discusses the location of extant material and considers the ethnographic methods used on the mission in conjunction with anthropological study, mass media, and popular celebrity in turn of the century France
Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: Religion, Enlightenment and the Sexual Revolution
The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture media. William Gibson and Joanne Begiato here consider the ways in which the Church of England dealt with sex and sexuality in this period. Despite the backdrop of …
Alfred Raquez Over Java
The work of fin-de-siècle fugitive writer and explorer Alfred Raquez has long been neglected, though a resurgence in interest is underway. While his book-length works are undergoing scholarly translation, his journalism remains largely unexplored. Yet within that corpus, there are instances of travel writing that merit examination. Raquez spent a month in Java in 1898. This article presents his writings on Java translated into English as well as …
Introduction: New Perspectives on Secularisation in Britain (and Beyond)
This introductory article reviews the recent developments in the debate on secularisation to establish the context within which the articles in this collection are located. It argues that the debate is complex and multi‐faceted, and has been subject to refocus and redefinition in the last decade. The article traces the contributors' previous interventions in the debate, and summarises the articles in this volume. It concludes that the theme of se…
Enlightening Enthusiasm: Prophecy and Religious Experience in Early Eighteenth-Century England, by Lionel Laborie
In early 1708, the religious group known as the ‘French Prophets’ sensationally announced in the London newspapers that they would effect the resurrection of one of their number, Thomas Emes, on 25 May that year. About 20,000 people attended the event in Bunhill Fields burial ground, representing 4 per cent of the population of London. When Emes failed to rise from his grave, the ‘Prophets’ were the object of widespread derision and satire. The p…
Tory anti-exclusionism in church and state: Richard Thompson of Bristol in 1678–85
This article examines the career of Richard Thompson, briefly dean of Bristol in 1685, as an example of a clergyman of Tory royalist and anti-exclusion principles. Thompson’s public attack on the Popish plot and impugning of the exclusionist cause led to his attempted impeachment by the House of Commons in December 1680. Only the prorogation of parliament in January prevented his impeachment. Nevertheless, Thompson remained a figure strongly asso…
Preaching in Eighteenth-Century London, by Jennifer Farooq
After the work of James Downey (1969) and Rolf Lessenich (1972), the study of preaching and the sermon in the eighteenth century was, until recently, badly neglected. Robert Ellison ignited interest in the nineteenth-century sermon in The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1998), but there has been no comparable work on the eighteenth century. Of course, some notable scholars have used sermons in their wor…
A Biographical Dictionary of Tutors at the Dissenters' Private Academies, 1660–1729
This remarkable resource is a product of the Dissenting Academies Project at Queen Mary University of London and Dr Williams's Library. In it Mark Burden, whose PhD was on the work of the dissenting academies, provides a biography of all the known tutors at academies between the Restoration and the opening of Phillip Doddridge's academy in 1729. The fifty-seven-page introduction makes a clear case for the production of a biographical dictionary r…
John Trusler and the Culture of Sermons in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Using John Trusler's unpublished memoirs, this article seeks to reconsider his trade in printed sermons using imitation manuscript print, which clergy could pass off as their own. While the trade smacks of corruption and dishonesty, and attracted considerable scorn for Trusler, it was in some respects a reflection of late eighteenth-century sermon culture. Trusler's defence to Bishop Terrick of London of trading in imitation manuscript sermons su…
Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Reform, by Heather Ellis
One of the markers of modernity, the features that distinguish between a modern society and economy and an early modern society, is a system of competitive examinations. Before the introduction of such examinations in universities, schools, the civil service, the army and the professions, recruitment and appointment to places of employment was necessarily through the operation of patronage and social connection. In the universities, competitive e…
Engendering Response: Professional Gesture and the Assessment of Eyesight in Optometry Consultations
Many of the procedures undertaken within healthcare require specialized forms of participation that may be unfamiliar, even disturbing, to patients or clients. The practitioner has to encourage and enable participation in the investigation in an appropriate fashion while preserving the structure and integrity of the procedure. In this article, we consider optometry and the deployment of a vision test, known as subject refraction, that provides da…
The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901
The period 1689-1901 was 'the golden age' of the sermon in Britain. It was the best selling printed work and dominated the print trade until the mid-nineteenth century. Sermons were highly influential in religious and spiritual matters, but they also played important roles in elections and politics, science and ideas and campaigns for reform. Sermons touched the lives of ordinary people and formed a dominant part of their lives. Preachers attract…
The British Sermon 1689–1901: Quantities, Performance, and Culture
The ubiquity of the sermon between 1689 and 1901 is an aspect of contemporary experience that has been largely forgotten. Yet sitting below a pulpit hearing a sermon is a cultural experience can be said to have been shared by all classes and conditions of people in Britain. This article begins by setting out figures for printed sermons and public preaching. It then discusses the material culture of the sermon.
Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment – By M. Knights
Working with Qualitative Data
"Qualitative Data Analysis provides an introduction to how to develop and apply strategies for the analysis of qualitative data by exploring the ways in which analysis is related to all aspects of research. By situating analysis in the context of the whole research process, this book helps the reader to introduce an analytical component to every stage of doing research: from designing a project, reviewing the literature, through the various stage…
Mr Wesley's Business': Dissenters, debt and distress in 1705
Journal Article ‘Mr Wesley's Business’: dissenters, debt and distress in 1705 Get access W. Gibson W. Gibson Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 83, Issue 222, November 2010, Pages 635–648, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2009.00521.x Published: 14 December 2009
The Limits of the Confessional State: Electoral Religion in the Reign of Charles Ii
From 1670 there were sustained attempts to use excommunication as a tool to influence parliamentary elections. Excommunicants could not qualify for membership of municipal corporations under the Test and Corporation Acts. Towards the end of Charles II's reign, as fear of protestant dissent grew, excommunication was, however, used to deny voters the right to exercise their franchise. There was a concerted attempt, encouraged by the king, to ensure…
The co-construction of medical disposals in emergency medicine consultations
Some Further Traces of the Franklin Retreat
THIS is the narrative of an overland trip along the south coast of King William Island, from Gjoa Haven to the western entrance to Simpson Strait, during the months of June and July 1931, with Mr. William Skinner, of the Hudson's Bay Company. Our principal object was to search for remains of members ofthe Franklin Expedition, reported by the Eskimo. Gjoa Haven is an excellent small land-locked harbour on the eastern shore of Petersen Bay, with a …
Mission Raquez: A forgotten ethnographic expedition through Laos in 1905
This paper focuses on Mission Raquez, a French ethnographic expedition through Laos to collect material for the Marseille Colonial Exposition of 1906. This paper discusses the location of extant material and considers the ethnographic methods used on the mission in conjunction with anthropological study, mass media, and popular celebrity in turn of the century France
William Talbot and Church Parties 1688–1730
It has been assumed by historians that the High and Low Church parties in the early eighteenth-century Church of England were exclusive and homogenous groups. However the life and career of Bishop William Talbot, as with a number of other clergy, raises questions about these assumptions. Though Talbot was ostensibly a Latitudinarian Whig, he embraced some clear High Church principles, including those on the Trinity and on the sacerdotal nature of…
Network News: Elements of a Theory
Paddy Chayefsky's film Network opens with a network news anchorman who has just received the bad news: he is to be replaced next week after decades in broadcast journalism. His ratings have been bad, the lowest of the four networks. The anchorman announces on the air that next week he will kill himself at the end of the broadcast, a live television death. United Broadcasting System, the network in question, faces the crisis and the old anchorman …
Alfred Raquez Over Java
The work of fin-de-siècle fugitive writer and explorer Alfred Raquez has long been neglected, though a resurgence in interest is underway. While his book-length works are undergoing scholarly translation, his journalism remains largely unexplored. Yet within that corpus, there are instances of travel writing that merit examination. Raquez spent a month in Java in 1898. This article presents his writings on Java translated into English as well as …
Engendering Response: Professional Gesture and the Assessment of Eyesight in Optometry Consultations
Many of the procedures undertaken within healthcare require specialized forms of participation that may be unfamiliar, even disturbing, to patients or clients. The practitioner has to encourage and enable participation in the investigation in an appropriate fashion while preserving the structure and integrity of the procedure. In this article, we consider optometry and the deployment of a vision test, known as subject refraction, that provides da…
The Persecution of Thomas Emlyn, 1703-1705
The passage of the Toleration Act in 1689 changed the nature of religion in England; no longer were Trinitarian dissenters outlawed and subject to criminal penalties.This was the start of a more enlightened attitude to religion that dramatically changed the way in which religious affiliation was viewed.But early in the eighteenth century the process was in its infancy and as the Convocation controversy of 1705 showed, there remained strong Anglic…
A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot
The Tories and Church Patronage: 1812–30
For the most part historians of the nineteenth century have tended to categorise the Whigs as the party of reform and the Tories as the party opposed to it. This trend has been strongest in the spheres of political and ecclesiastical history and has been supported by reference to events that led to the reforms of Church and State in the 1830s. The Whig commitment to ecclesiastical reform under Grey and Melbourne has established their reputation i…
Patterns of Nepotism and Kinship in the Eighteenth‐Century Church
Shakespeare's Game
I. Account of a Burial Urn, discovered at Colney, in Norfolk, in a Letter from the Rev. William Gibson, M. A. and F. A. S. to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
I have the honour to transmit to you, and by your favour to submit to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries, sketches of what I presume is a Roman Burial Urn, dug up on the 26th day of April last, by labourers employed in raising gravel, for the repair of the adjoining turnpike-road, from a pit in the parish of Colney, situate three miles to the west of the city of Norwich, on the way to Hingham. The sketches are the work of an unskilful h…
Some Further Traces of the Franklin Retreat
THIS is the narrative of an overland trip along the south coast of King William Island, from Gjoa Haven to the western entrance to Simpson Strait, during the months of June and July 1931, with Mr. William Skinner, of the Hudson's Bay Company. Our principal object was to search for remains of members ofthe Franklin Expedition, reported by the Eskimo. Gjoa Haven is an excellent small land-locked harbour on the eastern shore of Petersen Bay, with a …
The Village in the Outer Isles of Scotland
Roy De Maistre
One of the ablest critics of contemporary art has distinguished two groups among the more abstract types of painting today. The one, deriving through cubism from Cézanne and Seurat, is characterised by this critic as intellectual, structural, architectonic, geometric, rectilinear and classical. The other, deriving from Gauguin through fauvisme, and especially Matisse, he defines as instinctive and emotional, organic or biomorphic, curvilinear and…
The Textbook Industry and the Profession
C. David Mead, George Allen, Edmundo Garcia-Giron, William Gibson, Richard Ohmann, The Textbook Industry and the Profession, The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring, 1970), pp. 1-26
Shakespeare's Game
Network News: Elements of a Theory
Paddy Chayefsky's film Network opens with a network news anchorman who has just received the bad news: he is to be replaced next week after decades in broadcast journalism. His ratings have been bad, the lowest of the four networks. The anchorman announces on the air that next week he will kill himself at the end of the broadcast, a live television death. United Broadcasting System, the network in question, faces the crisis and the old anchorman …
Monday after the Miracle
Robert E. Moran, One Hundred Years of Child Welfare in Louisiana, 1860-1960
Patterns of Nepotism and Kinship in the Eighteenth‐Century Church
Putting on Appearances: Gender and Advertising
News That Matters: Television and American Opinion. Shanto Iyengar , Donald R. Kinder
The Tories and Church Patronage: 1812–30
For the most part historians of the nineteenth century have tended to categorise the Whigs as the party of reform and the Tories as the party opposed to it. This trend has been strongest in the spheres of political and ecclesiastical history and has been supported by reference to events that led to the reforms of Church and State in the 1830s. The Whig commitment to ecclesiastical reform under Grey and Melbourne has established their reputation i…
Civilisation and the edge of popular culture
A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot
The Tories and the Cambridge University Election of 1720
Eco-Justice--The Unfinished Journey
“Quo Vadis?” Historiographical Trends in British Studies: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century
My contention that “the culture of eighteenth century English society was infused -indeed drenched- with Anglicanism” means that there are few topics in this period that cannot be enhanced by the inclusion of a religious perspective.[36] Let this be a call to arms, to be intolerant of purely secular accounts of eighteenth century English society, and to restore religion and the Church of England to the place that they rightfully should command in…
The Persecution of Thomas Emlyn, 1703-1705
The passage of the Toleration Act in 1689 changed the nature of religion in England; no longer were Trinitarian dissenters outlawed and subject to criminal penalties.This was the start of a more enlightened attitude to religion that dramatically changed the way in which religious affiliation was viewed.But early in the eighteenth century the process was in its infancy and as the Convocation controversy of 1705 showed, there remained strong Anglic…
Dissenters, Anglicans and the Glorious Revolution: The Collection of Cases
(2007). Dissenters, Anglicans and the Glorious Revolution: The Collection of Cases. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 168-184
William Talbot and Church Parties 1688–1730
It has been assumed by historians that the High and Low Church parties in the early eighteenth-century Church of England were exclusive and homogenous groups. However the life and career of Bishop William Talbot, as with a number of other clergy, raises questions about these assumptions. Though Talbot was ostensibly a Latitudinarian Whig, he embraced some clear High Church principles, including those on the Trinity and on the sacerdotal nature of…
The Limits of the Confessional State: Electoral Religion in the Reign of Charles Ii
From 1670 there were sustained attempts to use excommunication as a tool to influence parliamentary elections. Excommunicants could not qualify for membership of municipal corporations under the Test and Corporation Acts. Towards the end of Charles II's reign, as fear of protestant dissent grew, excommunication was, however, used to deny voters the right to exercise their franchise. There was a concerted attempt, encouraged by the king, to ensure…
Working with Qualitative Data
"Qualitative Data Analysis provides an introduction to how to develop and apply strategies for the analysis of qualitative data by exploring the ways in which analysis is related to all aspects of research. By situating analysis in the context of the whole research process, this book helps the reader to introduce an analytical component to every stage of doing research: from designing a project, reviewing the literature, through the various stage…
Mr Wesley's Business': Dissenters, debt and distress in 1705
Journal Article ‘Mr Wesley's Business’: dissenters, debt and distress in 1705 Get access W. Gibson W. Gibson Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 83, Issue 222, November 2010, Pages 635–648, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2009.00521.x Published: 14 December 2009
The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901
The period 1689-1901 was 'the golden age' of the sermon in Britain. It was the best selling printed work and dominated the print trade until the mid-nineteenth century. Sermons were highly influential in religious and spiritual matters, but they also played important roles in elections and politics, science and ideas and campaigns for reform. Sermons touched the lives of ordinary people and formed a dominant part of their lives. Preachers attract…
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