Life in the Georgian Parsonage
Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 23 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350382084
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 250x194x28 mm
- Weight 1280 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 102 colour illus 681
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Long description:
An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption and lifestyle of Church of England clergy in the long 18th century, linking moral debates and popular representations of the clergy to the material culture of their houses and their motivations as consumers.
By focusing on ethical and moral dimensions of consumer practices, it challenges established readings of consumption in the long 18th century as an essentially secular process in which goods were markers of wealth, status and taste, by bringing the clergyman into the frame - their lives, their habits and their homes.
Cross-disciplinary in its approach, combining material culture and religious and social history and sitting at the intersection of these fields, Life in the Georgian Parsonage fills a significant gap, enhancing in important ways our knowledge of this group as a crucial but understudied set of 18th-century consumers, while also contributing to understanding the parish clergy of England in the context of 18th-century society and culture. Bringing together a wide range of source material - from probate inventories to personal account books, satirical prints to sermons, diaries to designs for parsonages - the author reconstructs the material lives and household arrangements of the Georgian clergy in glorious detail. Examining the parish clergy over this period of profound social and religious change through the lens of consumption, and consumption through the lives of these clergymen, has a transformative impact both on these areas of enquiry and on our understanding of English society in the 18th century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Representations of the clergy: critiquing incomes, worldliness and pretension
2. The worldliness problem: sermons on luxury, moderation and dignity
3. The changing nature of the parsonage: improvement, convenience and status
4. A world of goods: buying and locating household belongings
5. At home with the clergy: practicing politeness and hospitality
6. Communities of interest: family, parish and neighbourhood
7. Personal perspectives on consumption: religion, morality and duty
Conclusions
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