Articles on religion and the religious during the Victorian period, showing its unity and disunity.

The major themes of Catholic historiography and the history of education during the Victorian era unite the essays collected here, as is fitting for a volume honouring the work in these fields of Professor Vincent Alan McClelland.There is a particular emphasis upon the life and work of Cardinal Manning; other figures and topics considered include Father Randal Lythgoe, Cardinal Newman, the English Benedictine contribution to the British Empire, modern Scottish Catholic history, and Victorian Christianity in its various forms, as in the essays on Methodism and the Church of Ireland.

Contributions by: Aidan Bellenger, B A Aspinwall, David Newsome, James Pereiro, Jeffrey von Arx, John Smith, Joseph Pearce, Leo Gooch, Maurice Whitehead, Peter Erb, Peter Nockles, Rene Kollar, OSB,, Robin Gard, S Foster, Susan M. Parkes, Wulstan Peterburs, OSB,