Preface
Introduction –Nigel Aston & William Gibson
THE POLITICS OF CHURCH AND STATE
1. Securing the Mitre: the promotion and progress of a Bishop, Nigel Aston, University of Leicester
2. Lord Bishops: the episcopate in national politics, Ruth Paley, History of Parliament
3. Bishops and the monarchy, Grayson Ditchfield, University of Kent
PERFORMANCE
4. Pastors of their flock: visitation, ordination, confirmation, Colin Haydon, University of Winchester
5. Authority, conflict, and consensus: bishops, their clergy, and diocesan government, William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University
6. Bishops and patronage, Daniel Reed, Oxford Brookes University
CULTURES
7. Wives and families: the domestic life of bishops, Nigel Aston, University of Leicester & William Gibson Oxford Brookes University
8. Bishops and eighteenth-century intellectual life, Robert Ingram, University of Ohio
9. Bishops, taste and culture, Matthew Craske, Oxford Brookes University
BEYOND ENGLAND
10. Anglican bishops in Wales, John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales: Trinity St David.
11. The other establishment: bishops in the Church of Ireland, Toby Barnard, University of Oxford.
12. Episcopacy in Scotland, Rowan Strong, Murdoch University
13. Anglican Bishops, the wider world and the other Christian churches, Ted Campbell, Southern Methodist University
Appendix: Episcopal Incomes by Ruth Paley