The use and abuse of time in Christian history : papers read at the 1999 Summer Meeting and the 2000 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by R.N. Swanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting (1999 : Fitzwilliam College)

Contributor:

Swanson, R. N. (Robert Norman)

Ecclesiastical History Society. Winter Meeting (2000 : University of London. Institute of Historical Research)

Series:

Studies in church history ; 0424-2084 37.

Studies in church history, 0424-2084 ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Congresses.

Time.

Time--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 399 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2002.

Contents:

Pseudo-Macarius and the Messalians: the use of time for the common good / Stuart K. Burns

Augustine and the art of gardening / Carol Harrison

The Church and a revaluation of work in the ninth century? / Janet L. Nelson

Taboo or gift? The Lord's Day in Byzantium / Jane Baun

Work and play in sacred music and its social context, c. 1050-1250 57 / Susan Boynton

By the labour of their hands? Religious work and city life in thirteenth-century Italy / Frances Andrews

Fit to preach and pray: considerations of occupational health in the Mendicant Orders / Angela Montford

'Lesyng of tyme': perceptions of idleness and usury in late medieval England / Diana Wood

Church time and astrological time in the waning Middle Ages / Hilary M. Carey

Time and the testator, 1370-1540 / Judith Middleton-Stewart

Organizing time for secular and religious purposes: the contemplacion of sinners (1499) and the translation of the Benedictine rule for women (1517) of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester / Barry Collett

Time for prayer and time for work. Rule and practice among Catholic lay sisters in the Dutch Republic / Joke Spanns

Daniel's practice: the daily round of Godly women in seventeenth-century England / Anne Laurence

Catholic and Quaker attitudes to work, rest, and play in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England / Michael A. Mullett

The Sabbaths...spent before in idleness & the neglect of the word': the Godly and the use of time in their daily religion / David L. Wykes

'The bane of industry'? Popular evangelicalism and work in the eighteenth century / John Walsh

Escaping the common lot: a Buchanite perspective of the millennium / Jill Söderström

The gospel of work and the Virgin Mary: Catholics, Protestants, and work in nineteenth-century Europe / Jane Garnett

'A friendly and familiar book for the busy': William Arthur's The successful merchant: sketches of the life of Mr Samuel Budgett / Martin Wellings

Useful industry and muscular Christianity: George Augustus Selwyn and his early years as Bishop of New Zealand / Allan K. Davidson

Work, leisure, and revival: the integration of the 1859 revival into the working and social lives of the townsfolk, fermfolk, and fisherfolk of Aberdeenshire / K.S. Jeffrey

The Sabbath question in Victorian Scotland in context / Douglas M. Murray

Industrial day-dreams: S.E. Keeble and the place of work and labour in late Victorian and Edwardian Methodism / Tim Macquiban

Marianne Farningham: work, leisure, and the use of time / Linda Wilson

'A peculiarly English institution': work, rest, and play in the Labour Church / Krista Cowman

The Pope, labour, and the tango: work, rest, and play in the thought and action of Benedict XV (I914-22) / John F. Pollard

From shooting to shopping: Randall Davidson's attitudes to work, rest, and recreation / Stuart Mews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0952973375

9780952973379

OCLC:

49385968