Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on elements of the text
- List of general thanksgiving days 1689–1816
- Introduction
- 1 Sermons and thanksgiving-day sermons in the long eighteenth century
- 2 Thanksgiving-day sermons – purposes and meanings
- 3 ‘The Palladium of our Safety’ – Providence and Britain
- 4 Political theory and principles
- 5 ‘This Carping Age’ – the politics of unity and discord
- 6 War
- 7 Costs of war and consequences of peace
- 8 Commerce and Empire
- 9 Anglicanism, dissent, anti-Catholicism, and infidelity
- 10 Others and Britons
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Thanksgiving-day preachers’ and sermon details
- Appendix B Denominational breakdown of thanksgiving-day preachers
- Appendix C Main scriptural texts used for thanksgiving-day sermons
- Bibliography of primary sources
- Bibliography of secondary sources
- Index
Appendix A - Thanksgiving-day preachers’ and sermon details
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on elements of the text
- List of general thanksgiving days 1689–1816
- Introduction
- 1 Sermons and thanksgiving-day sermons in the long eighteenth century
- 2 Thanksgiving-day sermons – purposes and meanings
- 3 ‘The Palladium of our Safety’ – Providence and Britain
- 4 Political theory and principles
- 5 ‘This Carping Age’ – the politics of unity and discord
- 6 War
- 7 Costs of war and consequences of peace
- 8 Commerce and Empire
- 9 Anglicanism, dissent, anti-Catholicism, and infidelity
- 10 Others and Britons
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Thanksgiving-day preachers’ and sermon details
- Appendix B Denominational breakdown of thanksgiving-day preachers
- Appendix C Main scriptural texts used for thanksgiving-day sermons
- Bibliography of primary sources
- Bibliography of secondary sources
- Index
Summary
The biographical information provided below is not intended to give full details of preachers’ lives and careers. Instead, it supplies details pertinent to the context of the delivery of thanksgiving-day sermons. Please see pages xii–xiii for information on the sources of basic biographical details of preachers.
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- National Thanksgivings and Ideas of Britain, 1689–1816 , pp. 297 - 329Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020