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Andrew Foster (University of Kent & Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670-1735’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonFor the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs, the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671, yet close analysis of The Old Catalogue before 1735 reveals other stories of benefactors and books in what was quite a renaissance for cathedral, city, and the surrounding region at the end of the seventeenth […]
Richard Palmer: ‘This august tribunal’ – The Court of Arches: sex, money and the church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThis talk is about the Court of Arches, the ancient appeal court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its rich archive in Lambeth Palace Library. It outlines court procedure and the tangled lives of those who came before it, caught up in disputes about inheritance, marriage, divorce, morals, slander, church buildings, pews, rates and tithes. […]
Canon Daffern: ‘Rubrics for Royalty: The story of the Coronation Service in 2023’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonCanon Adrian Daffern was commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury to be the principal author of the revised Coronation service used for HM the King on May 6 this year. In this lecture Adrian will give put the newly revised service in its historical context, referring to many of the unique items held in Lambeth […]
