@article{sirota_2023, title={Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720}, volume={62}, ISSN={["1545-6986"]}, DOI={10.1017/jbr.2023.44}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2023}, month={Apr}, pages={516–517} }
 @article{sirota_2022, title={"The Manifest Distinction Established by Our Holy Religion": Church, State and the Consecration of Samuel Seabury}, ISSN={["1533-8568"]}, DOI={10.1017/rac.2022.3}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT}, journal={RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION}, author={Sirota, Brent}, year={2022}, month={Jul} }
 @article{sirota_2021, title={In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience}, volume={60}, ISSN={["1545-6986"]}, DOI={10.1017/jbr.2021.112}, abstractNote={ture with it for Rome—is that she has tried to address its significance in the round. She uses it as a gateway into the biblical world of Bede, and then within that world she asks why these Northumbrian monks made such a massive investment in making three of these enormous bibles—just imagine the number of sheepskins needed for its outsize pages (you can get all the measurements in Chazelle’s book)—and then to value them by placing one in Jarrow and the other in Wearmouth (just how did they want to use them?), and then why make one of them a gift to Saint Peter (that is, the pope)? Chazelle locates the three codices within the monastic world of Wearmouth and Jarrow (chapter 1) and then within the scholarly ambiance of Bede as a commentator on the Bible (chapter 2). This work alone makes this book of value as it brings together an array of studies on Bede as an exegete produced over the last fifty years and locates that scholarship around what Bede saw as the core of his endeavors. This background then allows Chazelle to investigate the actual manuscript in relation to its environment (chapter 3), which leads to a study of how reading and worship were interlinked in a late seventh-century monastery (chapter 4). The focus then narrows to Amiatinus as an object, and, in particular, its opening pages with the great images (for example, the plan of the wilderness tabernacle) and the scheme of images that runs through the codex (chapter 5). The final chapters look at three issues: first, what we can learn from the codex about why it was intended by Ceolfrith as a gift to Saint Peter at the end of his pilgrimage; second, what we know of the life of the three codices after 716—after which the contemporary evidence about them becomes silent; and third, an account of the anniversary celebrations in 2016. This is a study worthy of its object and will be welcomed by historians of the Bible as much as by Anglo-Saxonists and art historians. The work is enhanced by the sixty-five images in color and black-and-white illustrating what is being discussed in the book, and by a very useful summary of what is to be found on each of the 1030 folios of the manuscript (471–81). All in all, we are brought into the “life” of the codex.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2021}, month={Oct}, pages={947–949} }
 @article{sirota_2021, title={The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: "The Wonders of the Lord"}, volume={90}, ISSN={["1755-2613"]}, DOI={10.1017/S0009640721001104}, abstractNote={(50, 109–110, 115–116). By contrast, Carla Pestana concludes that Morton was expelled from Plymouth not for using the Prayer Book (which Bradford does not mention) but because Mare-mount was attracting runaway servants; she suggests that he invented the Prayer Book story retrospectively in order to win Gorges and Laud’s support (World of Plymouth Plantation, 149–150). In this line of interpretation, Morton’s alliance with Gorges was far more opportunistic than Mancall allows. The disagreement comes down to a question of whether to trust Bradford or Morton, but it is significant because it emphasizes Gorges’s importance to Mancall’s analysis and highlights the limitations of a narrow focus on Morton. Morton only began articulating a religious critique of the Puritans to impress Gorges, who as early as 1620 advocated colonization by arguing that it would spread Reformed Christianity. Meanwhile, Laud’s wide-ranging interest in America has been thoroughly neglected by historians, and unfortunately it remains so.}, number={1}, journal={CHURCH HISTORY}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2021}, month={Mar}, pages={203–205} }
 @article{sirota_2019, title={The Education of the Anglican Clergy 1780-1839}, volume={88}, ISSN={["1755-2613"]}, DOI={10.1017/S0009640719001549}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={2}, journal={CHURCH HISTORY}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2019}, month={Jun}, pages={534–536} }
 @misc{sirota_macinnes_2019, title={The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire}, ISBN={9781787445468}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787445468}, DOI={10.1017/9781787445468}, publisher={Boydell and Brewer Limited}, author={Sirota, Brent S. and Macinnes, Allan I.}, year={2019}, month={Nov} }
 @article{sirota_2018, title={The Political Bible in Early Modern England}, volume={87}, ISSN={["1755-2613"]}, DOI={10.1017/S0009640718002056}, abstractNote={The Political Bible in Early Modern England. By Kevin Killeen. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii + 310 pp. $58.99 hardback. - Volume 87 Issue 3}, number={3}, journal={CHURCH HISTORY}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2018}, month={Sep}, pages={907–909} }
 @article{sirota_2017, title={Anglican Confirmation, 1662-1820.}, volume={40}, ISSN={["1754-0208"]}, DOI={10.1111/1754-0208.12381}, abstractNote={Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 469-471 Book review Anglican Confirmation, 1662-1820. By Phillip Tovey. Farnham: Ashgate. 2014. 201 p. 2 b. and w. illus. £60 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4724-2217-0. Brent S. Sirota, Brent S. Sirota North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Brent S. Sirota, Brent S. Sirota North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 August 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12381Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume40, Issue3September 2017Pages 469-471 RelatedInformation}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2017}, month={Sep}, pages={469–471} }
 @article{sirota_2017, title={Religion and Women in Britain, c. 1660-1760.}, volume={40}, ISSN={["1754-0208"]}, DOI={10.1111/1754-0208.12460}, abstractNote={Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 473-474 Book review Religion and Women in Britain, c. 1660–1760. Edited by Sarah Apetrei and Hannah Smith. Farnham: Ashgate. 2014. 228 p. £75 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-2919-7. Brent S. Sirota, Brent S. Sirota North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Brent S. Sirota, Brent S. Sirota North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 August 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12460Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume40, Issue3September 2017Pages 473-474 RelatedInformation}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2017}, month={Sep}, pages={473–474} }
 @article{sirota_2015, title={Robert Nelson's festivals and fasts and the problem of the sacred in early Eighteenth-Century England}, volume={84}, DOI={10.1017/s0009640715000505}, abstractNote={The pious layman Robert Nelson's 1704 tract A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England was arguably the most popular and important Anglican devotional work of the eighteenth century. Ostensibly a simple guidebook to the Anglican liturgical calendar, Nelson's Festivals and Fasts was, in fact, a précis of Anglican theology and ecclesiology. What has been less clearly recognized, however, was the extent to which Nelson's Festivals and Fasts was also a sharply polemical work. This article considers Nelson's tract as a defense of “the sacred” as demarcating a socially and cognitively distinct sphere of life. Nelson's work takes great pains to maintain the spaces, offices, festivals and personnel of the church as “set apart” from the commerce of everyday life; and nearly every page exudes a fear of encroachment on the sacred. Nelson's conception of the sacred, and the manifold threats to its differentiation, provokes a reconsideration of the prevalent narratives of religious transformation in the early English enlightenment. Most importantly, it underscores the serious limitations of the current debate over secularization in this period.}, number={3}, journal={Church History}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2015}, pages={556–584} }
 @article{sirota_2015, title={THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, THE LAW OF NATIONS, AND THE LEGHORN CHAPLAINCY AFFAIR, 1703-1713}, volume={48}, ISSN={["1086-315X"]}, DOI={10.1353/ecs.2015.0014}, abstractNote={Leghorn [Livorno] in Tuscany in the early eighteenth century reveals an established Church of England attempting to accommodate itself, both ideologically and institutionally, to an increasingly dynamic and expansive British commercial empire. Against the prevailing political and ecclesiastical historiography that considers the Anglican establishment primarily in relationship to the state, this article will situate the Leghorn chaplaincy affair in the context of a subsidiary set of relationships between the Church and civil society. This article shows how the Church’s imbrication in commercial society not only drove Anglican ecclesiastical expansion in this period, but also comprised a religious lobby powerful enough to dictate policy to the British state.}, number={3}, journal={EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2015}, pages={283-+} }
 @misc{sirota_2014, title={Defending the Revolution: The Church of Scotland, 1689-1716}, volume={53}, number={3}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2014}, pages={782–784} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={Edward E. Andrews. Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.2013. Pp. 336. $39.95 (cloth).}, volume={53}, ISSN={0021-9371 1545-6986}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/JBR.2013.185}, DOI={10.1017/JBR.2013.185}, abstractNote={tian and ancient ethics; the range of alternate versions of the concept is also elicited from literature and medical science. These are important developments in their own right, although the greater universality of religious teachings upon the self within Scottish society—in the home, throughout everyday society, as well as institutionally on a Sunday—suggests this was the one theme that could, and perhaps should, predominate over philosophical summaries. Quibbling aside, there are some excellent observations made by the essayists when unearthing both personal and universal theorizing: the private formation of character is uncovered from William Smellie’s dreams (Phyllis Mack); James Boswell’s relationship with his father is seen to influence his depression as well as his Hypochondriac essays (Anthony LaVopa); and McKenna shows Adam Smith’s rhetorical art of character to be complementary to his moral theorizing and to his version of a civilized capitalist society. Still, this analysis could, or again perhaps should, be framed through the developing eighteenth-century urban worlds within which “public life” was negotiated. Clubs and societies were practical forms, creating defined “character roles” through action. The empiricist may question whether character was informed more by philosophy or by face-to-face interaction. “Character” may distinguish one individual or self from another and, as Hume and Smith showed, be crucial to a sense of self. But character was also dependent on relations with others: character did not exist outside society because it was constituted and created by the perceptions of others and was acquired through regular interaction with them. Character could be “read” and vouched for—indeed, one’s personal correspondence could be published (as discussed by Eva Travor Bannet), allowing the individual to “enter” and be “accepted” into civil society. Character, then, was a form of currency that crossed the ethical to the commercial (10–11) or was conceived as “a set of qualities and moral values developed and displayed in social relationships, through idioms of politeness” (125). And while the complexities inherent in universalizing personal and societal behavior will always struggle to account for uneven historical progress, answers begin to flow from conceptual and empirical periodization. Thus we can accept, as Sebastiani argues, that the Enlightenment literati followed Hume in rejecting climate theory as an explanation for national characteristics. Yet the interplay of science and society would resurrect some of these ideas within anthropological theory in the next century. Time and place, the old historian’s standby, are powerful stimuli in intellectual formation. By stressing the mix of context and theory, I’m already thinking of enquiries kindled by this excellent volume—for undoubtedly this is a collection of character.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={Jan}, pages={193–195} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={Jeffrey Stephen. Defending the Revolution: The Church of Scotland, 1689–1716. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 354. $134.95 (cloth).}, volume={53}, ISSN={0021-9371 1545-6986}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/JBR.2014.68}, DOI={10.1017/JBR.2014.68}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={3}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={Jul}, pages={782–784} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution}, volume={42}, ISSN={0361-2759 1930-8280}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2014.887970}, DOI={10.1080/03612759.2014.887970}, abstractNote={and to help place the story of the Mojos in the broader indigenous history of the Western Hemisphere. As it is, the book leaves the reader with questions about the author’s main findings. Despite these limitations, this book is an excellent resource for those interested in the Amazonian indigenous experience and in Latin American indigenous history in general. For this reason, it will be an excellent addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in Latin American and Native American studies.}, number={3}, journal={History: Reviews of New Books}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={May}, pages={91–92} }
 @misc{sirota_2014, title={Native apostles: Black and indian missionaries in the British Atlantic world}, volume={53}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2014}, pages={193–195} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={THE OCCASIONAL CONFORMITY CONTROVERSY, MODERATION, AND THE ANGLICAN CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY, 1700-1714}, volume={57}, ISSN={["1469-5103"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0018246x13000319}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT}, number={1}, journal={HISTORICAL JOURNAL}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={Mar}, pages={81–105} }
 @book{sirota_2014, title={The Christian monitors: The Church of England and the age of benevolence, 1680-1730}, publisher={New Haven: Yale University Press}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014} }
 @misc{sirota_2013, title={Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and slavery in the Atlantic World}, volume={52}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2013}, pages={218–219} }
 @article{sirota_2013, title={The Trinitarian Crisis in Church and State: Religious Controversy and the Making of the Postrevolutionary Church of England, 1687-1702}, volume={52}, ISSN={["1545-6986"]}, DOI={10.1017/jbr.2012.7}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2013}, month={Jan}, pages={26–54} }
 @article{sirota_2013, title={Travis Glasson. Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 328. $55.00 (cloth).}, volume={52}, ISSN={0021-9371 1545-6986}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/JBR.2012.30}, DOI={10.1017/JBR.2012.30}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2013}, month={Jan}, pages={218–219} }
 @misc{sirota_2011, title={The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700}, volume={83}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Modern History}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2011}, pages={637–639} }
 @article{sirota_2011, title={The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700. By Jeffrey Cox. Christianity and Society in the Modern World. Edited by, Hugh McLeod.London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xiv+315. $150.00 (cloth); $59.95 (paper).}, volume={83}, ISSN={0022-2801 1537-5358}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660317}, DOI={10.1086/660317}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe British Missionary Enterprise since 1700. By Jeffrey Cox. Christianity and Society in the Modern World. Edited by, Hugh McLeod.London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xiv+315. $150.00 (cloth); $59.95 (paper).Brent S. SirotaBrent S. SirotaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 83, Number 3September 2011 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/660317 Views: 14Total views on this site © 2011 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={3}, journal={The Journal of Modern History}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2011}, month={Sep}, pages={637–639} }