A history of the annual British and Irish state and religious anniversaries and occasions of special worship from the sixteenth century to the present.
Since the sixteenth century, the governments and established churches of Britain and Ireland have summoned their nations to special acts of public worship during crises, wars and times of celebration, or for annual days of commemoration and remembrance. These special prayers, special days of worship and religious anniversaries were national events, reaching into every parish. They had considerable religious, ecclesiastical, political, ideological, moral and social significance, and they produced important texts: proclamations, council orders, addresses and – in England and Wales, and in Ireland – prayers or complete liturgies which temporarily supplemented or replaced the services in the Book of Common Prayer, and most recently in Common Worship.
National Prayers. Special Worship since the Reformation in four volumes, provides the edited texts, commentaries and source notes for over 900 occasions of special worship and for each of the annual commemorations.
The final volume,
Anniversary Commemorations, Additional Material and Indices, 1533-2023, describes the orders and services for the nine early modern state anniversaries, including Accession day, Gowrie day, Gunpowder Treason day, Restoration day, and commemoration of Charles I’s execution and the Great Fire of London, and for the modern state anniversaries of Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday. It includes materials on particular occasions of special worship for 2016-23, including the Covid pandemic, commemoration of Prince Philip, platinum jubilee and funeral of Elizabeth II, and coronation of Charles III. Appendices provide supplementary material for the whole period of the edition, including extensive additions to the list of particular occasions of special worship observed from 1533 to 1660. An index of biblical references and a general index are provided for all four volumes of the edition.
Tabela de Conteúdo
THE EARLY MODERN ANNIVERSARIES
Introduction
Commentaries and texts
Thanksgiving for reconciliation with the Catholic church: 1555-8
Thanksgiving for the sovereign’s accession: 1562 to the present
Thanksgiving for James VI and I’s deliverance from the Gowrie
plot: 1601-25
Thanksgiving for the discovery of the gunpowder plot, and from
1689 for the ‘Glorious revolution’: 1605-1859
Thanksgiving in Ireland for defeat of the 1641 rising: 1642-1859
Fast for the execution (‘martyrdom’) of Charles I: 1661-1859
Thanksgiving for the restoration of the monarchy: 1661-1859
Fast in London for the great fire: 1667-1859
Thanksgiving in Scotland for the sovereign’s birthday: 1685-8
The abolitions of 1859
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Introduction
Commentaries and texts
PARTICULAR OCCASIONS 2016-23
Introduction
Commentaries and texts
APPENDICES
1.Additions and corrections to volume 1, for 1537 to 1660
2.W. K. Clay’s Liturgical services during the reign of Elizabeth I
3.Royalist prayers and services 1642-61
4.Unofficial prayers 1688-1716
5.Unused forms of prayer, England and Wales, 1719 and 1729
6.Translations of English and Irish forms of prayer
7.Special forms of prayer of other protestant churches
8.Special acts of worship in Anglo-Jewry
9.Broadcast services
10.’Church prayers’
11.Unadopted proposals for religious anniversaries
12.Special Sundays and other church anniversaries
Corrigenda for volumes 1-3
Index of biblical references
General index
Sobre o autor
PHILIP WILLIAMSON is Emeritus Professor of modern history at Durham University.
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