“Quo Vadis?” Historiographical Trends in British Studies: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

My contention that “the culture of eighteenth century English society was infused -indeed drenched- with Anglicanism” means that there are few topics in this period that cannot be enhanced by the inclusion of a religious perspective.^[36] Let this be a call to arms, to be intolerant of purely secular accounts of eighteenth century English society, and to restore religion and the Church of England to the place that they rightfully should command in the history of the century.