Chaplains in early modern England

Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood and Gillian Wright are all Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Birmingham

A pioneering collaboration between leading early modern historians and literary scholars. Chapters by Kenneth Fincham, David Crankshaw and Mary Morrissey analyse the legal structures governing the appointment and remit of chaplains and map their roles and functions within early modern England.

1. Introduction - Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright2. The roles and influence of household chaplains, c. 1600-c. 60 - Kenneth Fincham3. Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility: Activities, categories and patterns - David Crankshaw4. Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586-1642 - Mary Morrissey5. Chaplains to embassies: Daniel Featley, Anti-Catholic controversialist abroad - Hugh Adlington6. Poetry, patronage and cultural agency: the career of William Lewis - Tom Lockwood7. 'His lordships first, and last, CHAPLEINE': William Rawley and Francis Bacon - Angus Vine8. Richard Corbett and William Strode: Chaplaincy and verse in early seventeenth-century Oxford - Christopher Burlinson9. The Isham family and their clergy - Erica Longfellow10. A chaplain and his patron: Samuel Willes and Lord Huntingdon - William Gibson11. The reluctant chaplain: William Sancroft and the later Stuart Church - Grant TapsellSelect bibliographyIndex