Sainthood Revisioned

Download or read book Sainthood Revisioned written by Clyde Binfield and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine studies originated as papers delivered in the University of Sheffield's Department of History. Their subjects range geographically from the British Isles to Bohemia and on to Manchuria and Korea, and chronologically from early medieval Ireland to England in the later twentieth-century. They embrace saints, bishops philosophers, Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. They bring into one volume St. Patrick Comenius, Defoe, Rousseau, Chivers Jam and the English episcopate's recent past. Those who bring them together include an economic hisotorian, an anthropologist and a historian of thought as well as ecclesiastical historians. They are an invitation to serendipity, but they also allow for a serious making of connexions between unlikely subjects and across disciplines.