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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Bennett J. C"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A History of Pew Renting in the Church of England / / by J.C. Bennett"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9783031544279"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9783031544262"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed. 2024.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (245 pages)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"283"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Anglican Communion"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Religion - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Anglicanism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"History of Religion"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"1. 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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This 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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]