rotten borough
rotten borough A British Parliamentary borough whose population had virtually disappeared by 1832. At that time there were more than 50 such boroughs with two Members of Parliament. Among the most notorious were Old Sarum with a handful of electors and Dunwich, mostly submerged under the North Sea. They were abolished by the
REFORM ACT of 1832.
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Diverging Paths: Fin-de-Siècle Britishness and the Oxford Movement
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...fall of several religious movements, but few proved as long...and influential as the Oxford Movement. Although overt interest in the Oxford Movement-sometimes referred...more began to see the Oxford Movement as part of a Roman Catholic...
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"Ethos" and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; "Ethos" and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism. By James Pereiro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxx + 324 pp. $150.00 cloth. This is probably the most important book on the history of the Oxford Movement to...
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New perspectives on Newman and the Oxford Movement.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 6/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement continue to generate...compelling biography nor the Oxford Movement an event likely...complete assessment of the movement and its aftermath. Providing...students of Newman and the Oxford Movement. Here is but...
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The Oxford Movement: a Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of...shortage of books on the Oxford movement. The men who led...academic works on the Oxford movement. The Penn State Press has...movement and its members. The Oxford Movement can safely be put...
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The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 7/1/2004; ; 689 words
; The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of...need another book on the Oxford Movement. In the early...forgotten figure in the movement. In the same chapter...architectural aspect of the Oxford Movement. One feature I...
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The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times/An Introduction to the Oxford Movement
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; C. BRAD FAUGHT. The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians...CHANDLER. An Introduction to the Oxford Movement. New York, New York: Church...unusual to have two histories of the Oxford Movement in such a short period until...
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An Introduction to the Oxford Movement
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; An Introduction to the Oxford Movement. By Michael Chandler. New York...00 (paper). As a student of the Oxford Movement, it is hard for me to look...is the question for scholars of the Oxford Movement at this time. The revised...
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A revisitation. (Oxford Movement)
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/11/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...A REVISITATION WHILE VISITING Oxford in the summer of 1983, and browsing...event: the beginning of the Oxford, or Tractarian, Movement. It was embarrassing not to...the quiet of the still rural Oxford of 1833, and Newman's sermonic...
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Skinner, S. A. Tractarians and the "Condition of England": The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...England": The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement Oxford: Clarendon 330 pp., $99.60, ISBN 0-19-927323...grained study of the social and political ideas of the Oxford Movement. Using a wide range of sources, including...
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The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Oxford Movement. A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times. By C. Brad...journalist, having conceived that the amount of modern work on the Oxford Movement now calls for a synthesis in a brief compass, and having read much...
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Oxford movement
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oxford movement religious movement begun...clergymen at the Univ. of Oxford to renew the Church of England...years the followers of the movement placed increasing emphasis...See R. W. Church, The Oxford Movement (1891; rev.
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Oxford Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
OXFORD MOVEMENT OXFORD MOVEMENT. The Oxford Movement was a religious revival in the Church of England (1833) that emphasized the church's Catholic heritage in doctrine, polity, and worship. In America the movement found congenial soil among...
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Oxford
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...and a third edition is being prepared. Oxford Group a Christian movement popularized in Oxford in the late 1920s, advocating discussion...It was later known as Moral Rearmament . Oxford Movement a Christian movement started in Oxford...
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Oxford University
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...great benefactor to the university. Oxford became associated with high-church...the Church of England, and the Oxford movement in the 19th cent. reflected their...1890. Further reforms followed the Oxford University Act of 1854, pushed...
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Tractarian movement
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tractarian movement see Oxford movement .
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