The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority by Peter Field

The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority

Peter Field

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This work examines the demise of one Massachusetts intellectual elite, the Congregational Standing Order, and the rise of another, the Boston Brahmins, in the 18th and 19th centuries. It traces the social history of the two intellectual groups and...

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