Queen victoria : this thorny crown / Michael Ledger-Lomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledger-Lomas, Michael, author.

Series:

Spiritual lives.

Oxford scholarship online.

Spiritual lives

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queens--Great Britain--Biography.

Queens.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901--Religion.

Victoria.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This biography offers a comprehensive account of Victoria's religious life. Drawing on a systematic reading of her journals and a rich selection of archival manuscripts, it sheds new light on Victoria's private beliefs and on her activity as a monarch, who wielded her powers energetically in questions of church and state.

Contents:

Cover

Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: 'Someone Tremendous'

1: A New Reign

The 'Tribute of Natural Tears': Monarchy and Religious Emotion

'The Principles of our Holy Religion': Victoria's Preparation for the Throne

'No Idle Pageant': Victoria and Sacred Monarchy

Notes

2: Meine zweite Heimat

'A Second Homeland': Coburg

Shield of Faith: Victoria and the Hohenzollerns

'Germans and English belong to each other': Alice in Hesse-Darmstadt

'A Terrible and Worldwide Catastrophe': The Death of Friedrich III

3: Religion in Common Life

Bringing the Church Home: Victoria and Domestic Religion

The 'Silver Links of Earthly Love': Marriage and the Family

'Remember the Sabbath': Victoria and Sabbatarianism

'Darwin's Pigeons': Victoria and Natural Laws

4: A Darkened Earth

'Desolation': Grief and Christianity

'Earthly Treasure': Materiality and Mourning

'A Great Communion': Widowhood and Emotional Community

A 'National Sacred Work': Remembering Albert

5: The Supreme Head

'The State Religion': Victoria and the Church

'Very Violent People': The Oxford Movement and the Papal Aggression

The 'Bug Bear of Broad Church': Victoria and Liberal Protestantism

'Protestant to the Heart's Core': Victoria and Ritualism

'Earnest Views': Defending the Establishment

6: Disunited Kingdom

'The Real and True Stronghold of Protestantism': Victoria and the Church of Scotland

'Erin's Honour and Erin's Pride': Victoria and Irish Roman Catholicism

7: The Crown of Sacrifice

'Backward Glances into Forward Visions': Mourning Leopold

'Out of that Tomb, there is Yet More to Spring': The Duke of Clarence.

'The Crown of Sacrifice': Henry of Battenberg and Christian Victor

8: Oecumenic Colonial Carnivals

'Vehicle for a Great Show': Liturgy and Jubilee

'England's Opportunity and England's Responsibility': Victoria's Christian Empire

'The Whole World Kin': Jews and the Jubilees

'The Lord of the Soil': Victoria, the Jubilees, and Religion in Asia

9: A Completed Life

'Literally Orphaned': Burying Victoria

The 'Soul of a Great Empire': Victoria in Imperial Sermons

'The Great White Queen': Victoria and Colonial Subjects

'A Handful of Dust': Victoria in Retrospect

Selected Bibliography

Manuscripts

Primary printed sources

Secondary sources

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-336) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-106800-4

0-19-181510-1

0-19-106799-7

OCLC:

1244623898