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An Ecclesiastical Descent: Religion and History in the Work of William Stubbs

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: This article explores the relationship between religion and historiography in the work of the historian and bishop William Stubbs (1825–1901). Previous studies of Stubbs have neglected the High-Church influences which demonstrably pervaded his thought, and shaped his ideas of the English past, of the Christian purposes of history, and of the historical process itself. Recovering the confessional bent of Stubbs's approach to the past challenges assumptions about not only academic professionalisation, but also the prevalence through the Victorian period of a ‘Whig interpretation’ of history.

Source: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

DOI: 10.1017/s002204691200070x

Author: J. E. KIRBY

Institution: University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy, History, and Historiography

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2166473686

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Cites: 65

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10