Established in 1903, the journal publishes peer-reviewed articles that showcase the Special Collections of The John Rylands Library, one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The manuscript and printed collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects in more than fifty languages, including theology and philosophy; literature, drama and music; art and archaeology; science and medicine; economic, social, political, religious and military history; travel and exploration. The collections also contain the archives of companies, business associations, trade unions, charities, social organizations and religious institutions, as well as landed families. Articles are broad ranging and multi-disciplinary, enhancing the scholarship and understanding of the collections. Full length articles as well as short review pieces and notes on particular collections, exhibitions and recent acquisitions are welcome and work from early career researchers is encouraged. Articles not focused directly on the collections but concerned with the history of Manchester or of general relevance to the John Rylands Library as well as themed issues that situate research on the collections within different humanities disciplines will be published occasionally.
Contents: Reinventing the Reformation in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History Preface(5)Nockles, Peter Introduction: The Morning Star or the Sunset of the Reformation?(7)Rex, Richard Section One: Invocation The Chartists and the English Reformation(25)Paz, D.G. The Commemoration of the Reformation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Identity(49)Wolffe, John ‘A Triumph of the Rich’: Tractarians and the Reformation(69)Skinner, Simon High or Low? Writing the Irish Reformation in the Early Nineteenth Century(93)Ford, Alan ‘Some of the Grandest and Most Illustrious Beauties of the Reformation’: John Elias and the Battle over Calvinism in Early-Nineteenth-Century Welsh Methodism(113)Jones, David Ceri The Scottish Reformations and the Origin of Religious and Civil Liberty in Britain and Ireland: Presbyterian Interpretations, c.1800-60(135)Holmes, Andrew Section Two: Reinvention Memorializing William Tyndale(155)Atherstone, Andrew The Victorian Reformation Bible: Acts and Monuments(179)Westbrook, Vivienne John Foxe, Samuel Potter and the Illustration of the Book of Martyrs(203)Evenden, Elizabeth The Reformation Revised? The Contested Reception of the English Reformation in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism(231)Nockles, Peter Truth at Stake? The Posthumous Reputation of Archbishop Cranmer(257)Atkins, Gareth Section Three: Negotiation Defaming and Defining ‘Bloody Mary’ in Nineteenth-Century England(287)Richards, Judith The Real History of Protestantism: Thomas Carlyle and the Spirit of Reformation(305)Morrow, John The Reformation and the Principles of the English Constitution in Disraeli's ‘Young England’ Novels(323)Pereiro, James ‘Popery, Palestrina, and Plain-tune’: the Oxford Movement, the Reformation and the Anglican Choral Revival(345)Cole, Suzanne Afterword(369)Duffy, Eamon Afterword(377)Morris, Jeremy
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