This study provides a description and analysis of the intellectual culture of the eighteenth-century Church of England. Young challenges conventional perceptions of the Church as an intellectually moribund institution, tracing the influence of a variety of thinkers on the theological debate of the period.

Via Vertendi is designed to offer systematic help with Latin-English translation, not just a collection of passages. Each section takes up a particular translation or syntactical point and provides three interesting passages for practice, the first usually a simple piece of prose, the second and third practice prose and verse. The whole builds into a coherent course suitable for pupils.

The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Leslie Stephen, Vernon Lee, and M.R. James to a period which commanded their interest throughout the Victorian era, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the opening decades of the twentieth century. They were, on the one hand, appalled by the apparent frivolity of the eighteenth century,...