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Price: $285.00

Format:
Hardback 640 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
0199577331

ISBN-13:
9780199577330

Publication date:
June 2013

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone

Volume Two 1844-1853

Edited by Peter C. Erb

Between 1833 and 1891 Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) and William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) maintained a correspondence, broken only for a decade from 1851-1861and from 1875-1882. Tracing as it does the shifting relationships between two such major figures over the greater part of the nineteenth century, the collection provides substantial insights into debates on Church-State realignments in the 1830s and 1840s, the entanglements of Anglican Old High Churchmen and Tractarians from the early years of the Oxford Movement to 1851, and the relationships between Roman Catholics and the British Government over Italian, Irish, educational, and other political and religious issues in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

The first and second volumes include the greater part of the correspondence, composed while the two men were close friends, prior to Manning's entrance into the Roman Catholic Church in April 1851 and Gladstone's shift from the Conservative to the Liberal party at approximately the same time. The third and fourth volumes of the edition comprise their letters from the post-1861 period, Manning then serving as a Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Westminster, and Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer, leader of the Liberal opposition, and three terms as Liberal Prime Minister (his fourth following Manning's death). The fourth volume includes an appendix of materials marking their public debate initiated in late 1874 by Gladstone's charge that with the formal declaration of papal infallibility in 1870 Roman Catholics were required to renounce their 'moral and mental freedom.'

Readership : Suitable for students and scholars of nineteenth century British politics, and of nineteenth century church history.

Section Five: The Implications of Catholic Concerns
Section Six: Readjustments and Revisions
Section Seven: Charting New Directions
Section Eight: The Gorham Crisis
Section Nine: Epilogue: June, 1851 - August, 1853

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Peter C. Erb is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Special Features

  • Correspondence arranged chronologically with indications of all known personal meetings between the two men and annotated explanations linking the letters.
  • Brief biographies (with primary and secondary bibliographic references) of persons cited in correspondence and full annotations to all political, historical, and theological matters (including contemporary newspaper references, citations of parliamentary papers and parliamentary debates) raised in correspondence are provided as footnotes.
  • Provides information on a wide range of nineteenth century political and religious issues, including England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism in England and the Continent, Scottish Episcopalianism.