Life in the Georgian Parsonage
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-38207-7 (ISBN)
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By focusing on ethical and moral dimensions of consumer practices, it challenges established readings of consumption in the long 18th century as an essentially secular process in which goods were markers of wealth, status and taste, by bringing the clergyman into the frame – their lives, their habits and their homes.
Cross-disciplinary in its approach, combining material culture and religious and social history and sitting at the intersection of these fields, Life in the Georgian Parsonage fills a significant gap, enhancing in important ways our knowledge of this group as a crucial but understudied set of 18th-century consumers, while also contributing to understanding the parish clergy of England in the context of 18th-century society and culture. Bringing together a wide range of source material – from probate inventories to personal account books, satirical prints to sermons, diaries to designs for parsonages – the author reconstructs the material lives and household arrangements of the Georgian clergy in glorious detail. Examining the parish clergy over this period of profound social and religious change through the lens of consumption, and consumption through the lives of these clergymen, has a transformative impact both on these areas of enquiry and on our understanding of English society in the 18th century.
Jon Stobart, FRHS, is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the author of The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020), editor of A Taste for Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Johanna Ilmakunnas, General Editor of A Cultural History of Shopping, 6 volumes (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor, with Christopher J. Berry, of A Cultural History of Luxury in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is also editor of Global Goods and the Country House (2023), author of Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022) and co-author of Consumption and the Country House (2016).
Introduction
1. Representations of the clergy: critiquing incomes, worldliness and pretension
2. The worldliness problem: sermons on luxury, moderation and dignity
3. The changing nature of the parsonage: improvement, convenience and status
4. A world of goods: buying and locating household belongings
5. At home with the clergy: practicing politeness and hospitality
6. Communities of interest: family, parish and neighbourhood
7. Personal perspectives on consumption: religion, morality and duty
Conclusions
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 102 colour illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-38207-8 / 1350382078 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-38207-7 / 9781350382077 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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