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Historians and the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870-1920: Oxford Historical Monographs

Autor James Kirby
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mar 2016
Historians and the Church of England explores the vital relationship between the Church of England and the development of historical scholarship in the Victorian and Edwardian era. It draws upon a wide range of sources, from canonical works of history to unpublished letters, from sermons to periodical articles, to give a clear picture of the influence of religion upon the rich and flourishing world of English historical scholarship. The result is a radically revised understanding of both historiography and the Church of England. It shows that the main historiographical topics at the time-the nation, the constitution, the Reformation, and (increasingly) socio-economic history-were all imprinted with the distinctively Anglican concerns of leading historians. It brings to life the ideas of time, progress, and divine providence which structured their understanding of the past. It also shows that the Church of England remained a 'learned church', concerned not just with narrowly religious functions but also scholarly and cultural ones, into the early twentieth century: intellectual secularization was a slower and more fragmented process than accounts focused on natural science (especially Darwinism) to the exclusion of the humanities have led us to believe.This is not just the history of a coterie of scholars, but also of a wealth of texts and ideas that had a truly global circulation at a time when history was second only to the Bible (and perhaps the novel) in its cultural status and readership.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198768159
ISBN-10: 019876815X
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 141 x 222 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Historical Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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James Kirby offers not only a valuable contribution to the contemporary historiography, but also a book that is useful for any category of reader and it helps him to better understand not only the English history, but also its spirituality.
[S]uperb new monograph. ... Kirby has written an original and profound book that will permanently alter the way serious students of modern British historiography think about their subject.
[A]dmirable.
Historians and the Church of England is a delightful, lucidly-written work of reclamation where religiously-conditioned, carefully nuanced contributions to public memory have been rescued from certain neglect in a secularizing will to power. Students and scholars interested in learned churchmanship as a feature of Anglican patrimony, in the development of the modern historical imagination, and in the possibilities of a scholarship that is neither agnostic nor fundamentalist, will find themselves indebted to Kirby and his work.
The greatest strength of Historians and the Church of England is the clarity and force of Kirby's writing...It makes Victorian historiography, and the history of ideas more broadly, seem exciting, consequential, and worth understanding and listening to regardless of one's own research specialization. It is a model for how to write engagingly while still reaming faithful to the core remit of intellectual history.
James Kirby's work is well researched and sure-footed ... Historians and the Church of England is a fine example of how much faith there is to notice in late Victorian and early twentieth-century British intellectual life for those with eyes to see.
James Kirbys highly original monograph...opens up a fascinating insight into a world of which most British historians today are but dimly aware. In a wide-ranging study of British historiography,he draws on a host of names some of them very familiar, some probably unfamiliar, almost certainly nearly all however unread today to construct a persuasive (to this reviewer) argument about the impact of Anglicanism on the development of historical scholarship at the end of the nineteenth century.
Kirby presents a substantially revised picture of the state of English historical scholarship around the turn of the century, a reassertion of the scholarly and intellectual creativity of the Church of England into the Edwardian era, and a series of bracing challenges to established orthodoxies in the histories of historiography and national identity. It is simply a pleasure, finally, to read such well-turned prose, and to see such a subtle and powerful intellect at work.
James Kirby's book is a rewarding, diligent, and empathetic excursion into a lost world of Victorian intellectual history, which does much to reanimate these historiographical questions and to explain the commitment of historians to their vocation.
[Kirby] has produced an excellent study ... his analysis of the development of history as a discipline, particularly on the development of constitutionalism and socioeconomic history, is remarkable. Overall, the book deserves a central place in a historiography syllabus, as the wealth of materials consulted, the writing and organization of the work, and the analysis of the scholarship by amateurs and professionals from the era demonstrate a successful shaping of modern history. The footnotes, selected bibliography, and index are phenomenal ... Essential.
Kirby accomplishes precisely what he seeks to do, and for that he deserves high praise.

Notă biografică

James Kirby studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at Balliol College, Oxford from 2007 to 2014. In 2010, he was awarded the Gibbs Prize for History (for the highest mark in the History Final Examinations at Oxford) and the Arnold Modern History Prize (for the best undergraduate dissertation). His subsequent DPhil was jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Balliol's Peter Storey Scholarship. In 2014, he was elected to a Title A Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge.From 2015-17, Kirby will study to qualify as a barrister, funded by a Princess Royal Scholarship from the Inner Temple, though he remains (until 2018) a Fellow of Trinity and intends to maintain an active interest in modern British history alongside his legal studies.