Cantuar: Archbishops in Their Office

by Edward Carpenter

Adrian Hastings

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'My intention in this study is to illustrate across the centuries the outreach of an office, together with the characters and aptitudes of those who have discharged it: to trace how the Archbishop, in his unique office, has helped to condition, and in his turn been conditioned by, the continuing life of the English people.' So wrote Dean Edward Carpenter, in 1971, in his Preface to the first edition of this unique and authoritative study of the See of Canterbury and the Archbishops who have held office in it. This third edition coincides with the celebrations surrounding the 1,400th...Read more
  • ISBN10 0264674499
  • ISBN13 9780264674490
  • Publish Date 1 September 1997 (first published 11 November 1971)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 November 2012
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Mowbray
  • Edition 3rd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 668
  • Language English