W J Sheils
Biographic Data
| ID | 5373097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W J Sheils |
| GIVEN NAMES | W J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheils |
| SIGNATURE | SHEILS W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Edmund Campion
Cloistered Voices
James Francis McMillan (1948-2010)
Nature and Modernity
The impact of industrialization and urbanization in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the Churches’ responses to it, in terms of meeting pastoral needs and devotional impulses, has produced an extensive literature since Owen Chadwick’s magisterial study of forty years ago. Much of that has focussed on the social mission of the Church, but the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the rapid transformation of parts of the physi…
Polemic as Piety
This article examines the triple biography of Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Becket and Thomas More, published by Thomas Stapleton in 1588 and generally regarded as a work of pious hagiography. By focusing on the circumstances in which the book was written and published, the article demonstrates its polemical significance at a time of rapid political change in Catholic/Protestant relations in both England and Europe. Conceived as a Catholic alternati…
The Pontificate of Clement VII
Edmund Campion
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures…
The Altars in York Minster in the Early Sixteenth Century
Good God! what a pomp of silk vestments was there, of golden candlesticks.’ The dismissive satire of Erasmus’s pilgrim on looking down on Canterbury Cathedral not only brought traditional piety into disrepute among significant sectors of the educated, both clerical and lay, in early sixteenth-century England, but has also helped to colour the views of historians of the later medieval Church until recently. The work on parochial, diocesan, and cat…
Beliefs and their Contexts in Early Modern England
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Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access W. J. SHEILS W. J. SHEILS University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 180–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.180 Published: 01 February 1996
Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War
When Charles I entered the city of York on the afternoon of Saturday 17 March 1642 he was met by the corporation, but despite reports that 'the streets were embroidered with people on both sides' in welcome the reception did not go well. Immediately prior to the king's arrival the corporation had expressed concern that a number of aldermen would absent themselves on the day, and the speech of the mayor, Edmund Cowper, was not well received. After…
Protestantism in the English Reformation
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The Right of the Church’; the Clergy, Tithe, and the Courts at York, 1540–1640
A Certificate From Northamptonshire , published anonymously in 1641, proclaimed that the current attacks being made on the bishops had a secret purpose behind them: the abolition of the requirement to pay tithe, whether to cleric or layman. ‘If the bishops and their courts were overthrown’, so the author claimed, the people would be freed from paying tithes, ‘which is the secret thing which our common free holders and grand jury-men do so much ai…
Oliver Heywood and his Congregration
The ministerial career of the presbyterian divine Oliver Heywood, spanning as it did the years from 1650, when as a young man still technically too young for ordination he first accepted the call of the congregation at Coley chapelry in the parish of Halifax, until 1702 when on 4 May he died there, a patriarchal figure respected and admired by fellow ministers and congregation alike, was considered by contemporaries and has subsequently been thou…
Polemic as Piety
This article examines the triple biography of Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Becket and Thomas More, published by Thomas Stapleton in 1588 and generally regarded as a work of pious hagiography. By focusing on the circumstances in which the book was written and published, the article demonstrates its polemical significance at a time of rapid political change in Catholic/Protestant relations in both England and Europe. Conceived as a Catholic alternati…
Oliver Heywood and his Congregration
The ministerial career of the presbyterian divine Oliver Heywood, spanning as it did the years from 1650, when as a young man still technically too young for ordination he first accepted the call of the congregation at Coley chapelry in the parish of Halifax, until 1702 when on 4 May he died there, a patriarchal figure respected and admired by fellow ministers and congregation alike, was considered by contemporaries and has subsequently been thou…
The Right of the Church’; the Clergy, Tithe, and the Courts at York, 1540–1640
A Certificate From Northamptonshire , published anonymously in 1641, proclaimed that the current attacks being made on the bishops had a secret purpose behind them: the abolition of the requirement to pay tithe, whether to cleric or layman. ‘If the bishops and their courts were overthrown’, so the author claimed, the people would be freed from paying tithes, ‘which is the secret thing which our common free holders and grand jury-men do so much ai…
Protestantism in the English Reformation
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
Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War
When Charles I entered the city of York on the afternoon of Saturday 17 March 1642 he was met by the corporation, but despite reports that 'the streets were embroidered with people on both sides' in welcome the reception did not go well. Immediately prior to the king's arrival the corporation had expressed concern that a number of aldermen would absent themselves on the day, and the speech of the mayor, Edmund Cowper, was not well received. After…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access W. J. SHEILS W. J. SHEILS University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 180–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.180 Published: 01 February 1996
Beliefs and their Contexts in Early Modern England
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
The Altars in York Minster in the Early Sixteenth Century
Good God! what a pomp of silk vestments was there, of golden candlesticks.’ The dismissive satire of Erasmus’s pilgrim on looking down on Canterbury Cathedral not only brought traditional piety into disrepute among significant sectors of the educated, both clerical and lay, in early sixteenth-century England, but has also helped to colour the views of historians of the later medieval Church until recently. The work on parochial, diocesan, and cat…
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures…
The Pontificate of Clement VII
Edmund Campion
Polemic as Piety
This article examines the triple biography of Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Becket and Thomas More, published by Thomas Stapleton in 1588 and generally regarded as a work of pious hagiography. By focusing on the circumstances in which the book was written and published, the article demonstrates its polemical significance at a time of rapid political change in Catholic/Protestant relations in both England and Europe. Conceived as a Catholic alternati…
James Francis McMillan (1948-2010)
Nature and Modernity
The impact of industrialization and urbanization in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the Churches’ responses to it, in terms of meeting pastoral needs and devotional impulses, has produced an extensive literature since Owen Chadwick’s magisterial study of forty years ago. Much of that has focussed on the social mission of the Church, but the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the rapid transformation of parts of the physi…
Cloistered Voices
Edmund Campion
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