Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne

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University of Delaware Press, 2007 - 291 Seiten
When Mr. and Mrs. Shandy stroll out to watch Toby and Trim march in formation to the Widow Wadman's house, they use a familiar occurrence to gauge the day of the week. The sight of Mr. Yorick's congregation emerging from the parish church tells them it is a Sunday; Mrs. Shandy provides the more specific information that it is Sacrament Sunday, which tells Mr. Shandy that it is the first Sunday of the month. Modern readers may slip over this brief exchange, but it is the gateway to a series of inquiries whose answers the original readers of Tristram Shandy would have taken for granted. Drawing on modern historical research and eighteenth-century texts, Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne answers these inquiries.
 

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Archbishops and Mountebanks Going into the Family Business
31
The Church of England and Its Parishioners
70
The Company of Preachers William Roses The Practical Preacher 1762
104
Mrs Yorick and the Midwife Roles for Women in the EighteenthCentury Church of England
149
Guys and Monks AntiCatholicism in the Church of England
183
The Shandean Liturgy
215
Notes
247
Glossary
270
Bibliography
279
Index
288
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Seite 31 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Seite 13 - AB, do declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the Book entitled the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be sung or said in Churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

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