Bishop Burgess and his world : culture, religion and society in Britain, Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / edited by Nigel Yates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yates, Nigel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burgess, Thomas, 1756-1837.

Burgess, Thomas.

Bishops--Great Britain--Biography.

Bishops.

Religion.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Europe--Social conditions.

Europe.

North America--Social conditions--18th century.

North America.

North America--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain--Religion.

Europe--Religion.

North America--Religion.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 324 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007.

Summary:

English author and philosopher Bishop Thomas Burgess (1756-1837) spent his early career advocating for the emancipation of slaves and evangelizing among the poor. In 1803 he was appointed Bishop of St. David' s, where he remained for the next twenty years, and in that position he founded and liberally endowed St. David' s College, now the University of Wales, Lampeter. This book gathers together essays that use Bishop Burgess' s life as a starting point to uncover the links between the academic, religious, and social cultures of Britain, Europe, and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780708320754

0708320759

OCLC:

76798275