Princes and Paupers in the English Church 1500-1800

Rosemary O' Day and Felicity Heal have edited yet another volume of essays on ecclesiastical history, this time focusing on the economic problems of the church. Intended to amend and amplify Hill's Economic Problems of the Church, the twelve essays in this volume also amplify Dr Heal's recent work on the finances of the Tudor Episcopate and Dr O' Day's volume on the emergence of the clergy as a professional class. As its title indicates, the contributions to the book may be divided between those which study the economic behaviour of the bishops and the cathedral chapters on the one hand, and those which focus on the parochial clergy on the other. Observed over three hundred years, the economic position of the church emerges from these essays in a coherent pattern.