Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Editorial -- Martha or Mary? Clerical Wives and Hospitality in the English Reformation -- From Debate to Emulation: Wives and Daughters in Seventeenth-century Clerical Households -- Finances of the Anglican Episcopate in the Eighteenth Century -- The Economic Network of an Eighteenth-century Clergyman -- A Rector in Want of a Wife -- Genteel or Respectable? The Material Culture of Rural Clergy in Late Georgian England -- Notes -- Copyright Page

This study uses English and Swedish sources to illustrate the importance of clerical marriage to the success of the Reformation, and examines the social standing of the clergy through their material wealth and financial networks.