Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist er

Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist er

Anne Steele (1717-1778) was one of the most well-known and best-loved hymn-writers of the eighteenth century, and her hymns remained exceedingly popular until l

Anne Steele (1717-1778) originally wrote her hymns to be sung in the Baptist congregation pastored by her father. The foremost female contemporary of hymn-writi

Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning. Using an interdisciplinary met