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Ruskin’s Influence on English Catholicism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

J. Anthony Hilton
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In 1849 John Ruskin published The Seven Lamps of Architecture and in the following year the English Catholic hierarchy was restored, involving the creation of a diocesan administration, made possible by toleration and made necessary by increasing numbers and influence. As Ruskin’s work broadened out from art and architecture to encompass the economy and society, his teaching was to have a profound and lasting effect on the thinking of leading English Catholics.

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British Catholic History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , May 2000 , pp. 96 - 105
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 2001

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