Nigel Aston

Biographic Data

ID3978057
NAMENigel Aston
GIVEN NAMESNigel
FAMILY NAMEAston
SIGNATUREASTON N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leicester
ORCID0000-0002-8502-0419
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR35
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEParliamentary History2024

    In terms of the unreformed franchise operative in the early 18th century, the University of Oxford made up an unusual parliamentary constituency. Here it was the votes of non‐resident members that could be decisive to the outcome if the seat was contested. In late Stuart and early Hanoverian Oxford, Tories were almost certain to be returned but, in the general election of 1722, the Tory vote was split between rival candidates offering a possible …

  • Hanoverian Oxford and the Fashioning of John Wesley, c .1720–1745

    Nigel AstonARTICLEWesley and Methodist Studies2023

    This article is an attempt at recovering the Oxford contexts of John Wesley’s young manhood, charting his milieu more exactly in the light of the most recent scholarship, and, in so doing, moving away from the outworn depiction of the virtuous and misunderstood young Wesley in a university setting largely deficient in its Christian practices. It argues that Oxford’s unsuccessful relationship and persistent ambivalence toward the mature John Wesle…

  • Thomas Townson and High Church Continuities and Connections in Eighteenth-Century England

    Nigel AstonARTICLEBulletin of the John Rylands…2021

    This article focuses on the career and writings of a neglected eighteenth-century High Church cleric, Thomas Townson (1715–92). It aims to restate his contemporary prominence as a writer and pastor and present fresh research into the intergenerational transmission and reception of High Church ideas and practices within a distinctive religio-political milieu in Staffordshire and Cheshire. In this recovery of contexts, it notes Townson’s relatively…

  • John Brooke and the Namierite Succession

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEParliamentary History2021

    Without John Brooke, the first volumes of the History of Parliament for the house of commons covering the years 1754–90 might either have appeared much later than they did in 1964 (a mere four years after Sir Lewis Namier's death) or they might never have appeared at all. It was a token of how much Brooke willingly played the role of Namier's principal lieutenant during the latter's lifetime and his qualified loyalty continued for the remainder o…

  • Warren Johnston

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEJournal of Religious History2021

  • Image, Identity and John Wesley

    Nigel AstonARTICLEWesley and Methodist Studies2019

  • Francophilia and Political Failure

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2017Cited by: 1

    This article draws attention to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne’s (1737–1805) capacity for fostering a culture of mutual respect and constructive interaction in Anglo-French relations that had no contemporary equivalent, and explores his contacts with the French political world before the Revolution. For someone who was usually lambasted for sophistry and inconsistency, his career-long commitment to Anglo-French cordiality over three decades…

  • God in the Enlightenment

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017

    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

  • Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2015

  • Irish or English? The Rise and Rise of John Fitzmaurice Petty in the 1750s

    Nigel AstonARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2015

    The ascent of John Fitzmaurice is a study in the processes of Anglo-Irish integration and socialization in aristocratic circles in eighteenth-century London, a subject area that awaits systematic investigation: his is less a story of rags to riches than of a resourceful Irishman from a family of Anglo-Norman pedigree repositioning himself in London society to take maximum advantage of an extraordinary piece of good fortune. He was so successful i…

  • Représenter le Roi ou la Nation? Les parlementaires dans la diplomatie anglaise, 1660–1702, by Stéphane Jettot

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2014

  • Mark Curran, Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-Revolutionary Europe

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2014

  • Christopher J.Walker

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEJournal of Religious History2014

  • Saintete et Lumieres. Hagiographie, Spiritualite et propagande religieuse dans la France du XVIIIe siecle

    Nigel AstonARTICLEFrench History2012

    Sainthood and Enlightenment have not been conventionally associated. Eric Suire’s important book comprehensively displaces that disjuncture. His is an exhaustive study that learnedly covers every conceivable aspect of sainthood in eighteenth-century France; it is rich in statistics throughout, with careful consideration and classification of sources. The keynote theme is one of evolution, not disappearance, for Saints were still ubiquitous. They …

  • Aspects de l’érudition hagiographique aux xvii e et xviii e siècles – By B. Joassart. Éditeur les martyrologes

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEJournal of Religious History2012

  • William Blackstone

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEParliamentary History2010

  • Six Hundred Years of Reform. Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789

    Nigel AstonARTICLEFrench History2008

  • Pictures and Popery

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEHistory2008

  • Devenir cure a Paris

    Nigel AstonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2007

    Journal Article Devenir curé à Paris: Institutions et carrières ecclésiastiques (1695–1789) Get access Devenir curé à Paris: Institutions et carrières ecclésiastiques (1695–1789), by Ségolène de Dainville-Barbiche (Paris: P.U. de France, 2005; pp. 550. Eur 36). Nigel Aston Nigel Aston University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 496, April 2007,…

  • Decline or Evolution? Religion in Modern Europe

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2006

  • The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution

    Nigel AstonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

  • Sir Brooke Boothby

    Nigel AstonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Journal Article Sir Brooke Boothby: Rousseau's Roving Baronet Friend Get access Sir Brooke Boothby: Rousseau's Roving Baronet Friend, by Jacques Zonneveld (Voorburg: De Nieuwe Haagsche, 2004; pp. 542. Eur 105; £75). Nigel Aston Nigel Aston University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1543–1544, https://doi.org/10.1093/eh…

  • The D’Éprémesnil of the Clergy’

    Nigel AstonARTICLEFrench History2005

    Lauzières de Thémines, Bishop of Blois, is one of the overlooked leaders of resistance to royal policies in the ‘pre-revolution’ of 1787–9, masterminding the opposition of the First Estate in the General Assembly of the Clergy of 1788 and in his own anonymous publications. Thémines’ own uncomfortable relations with the lower clergy of the Blois diocese gave him no chance of election as a representative of the First Estate in the Estates-General a…

  • From personality to party

    Open AccessNigel AstonARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2004Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Rendre ses voeux

    Nigel AstonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004

    1University of Leicester Rendre ses voeux: Les identités pèlerines dans l’Europe moderne (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles) Philippe Boutry Pierre-Antione Fabre Dominique Julia Paris Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 2000 587 F350