LEADER 03453nam 22005055 450 001 9910864190703321 005 20250808093359.0 010 $a9783031544279$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031544262 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-54427-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31354973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31354973 035 $a(CKB)32157517300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-54427-9 035 $a(OCoLC)1436661106 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932157517300041 100 $a20240526d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA History of Pew Renting in the Church of England /$fby J.C. Bennett 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Bennett, J. C. A History of Pew Renting in the Church of England Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031544262 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. ?That Woman that Shall Succeed Her?: Formal Pew-Renting up to 1818 -- 3. ?Free from Tractarian Error?; Formal Pew-Renting Churches after 1818 -- 4. ?Drive-A-Good-Bargain?: The Mechanics of Formal Pew-Renting Since 1818 -- 5. ?Cobblers and Rat-Catchers?: Formal Pew-Renters -- 6. ?Pew-Opener?s Muscle?: Informal Pew-renting and Pew-Openers -- 7. ?The Morphine Velvet, Lavender-Kid-Glove School of Theology?: Private Pew-letting -- 8. ?To Hinder Such Abomination?: Supporters and Opponents -- 9. ?Seats We So Seldom Use?: Formal Pew-Renting?s Demise. 10. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth century to the system?s collapse in the twentieth. The book?s significance is partly its originality; no book and very few articles or portions of books have appeared solely on pew-renting since the nineteenth century, and even those of that time were not histories ? they were polemical works that generally attacked pew-renting on religious grounds. This work encompasses the distinction between formal letting of seats ? which involved the methodical letting of sittings by church authorities with set rents ? and informal pew-letting, in which congregants tipped pew-openers and sidesmen for favourable seats for one service. It also details the concomitant difficulties and hindrances encountered by churches and renters, the means of setting the rents and collecting the proceeds, the types of congregants who rented pews, the controversy the practice provoked, and the deception and bending ? and sometimes outright breaking ? of the applicable law. J.C. Bennett received his PhD in History from the University of Birmingham in 2011. He has currently an appellate attorney in Texas, USA. 606 $aAnglican Communion 606 $aReligion$xHistory 606 $aAnglicanism 606 $aHistory of Religion 615 0$aAnglican Communion. 615 0$aReligion$xHistory. 615 14$aAnglicanism. 615 24$aHistory of Religion. 676 $a283 700 $aBennett$b J. C$01740980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910864190703321 996 $aA History of Pew Renting in the Church of England$94166912 997 $aUNINA