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An Anglican theological paradigm was important in this period because Christianity was both sincerely believed and widely influential, and because most English people were Christian and Anglican. The empire and its inhabitants were understood through a series of theological motifs and the traditions of the Church of England. Anglicanism was imperialist in the sense of believing the English-British Empire in being connected with inequalities of power in the empire. But the empire was also subordinate to, and conditional upon, the English-British fulfilling divine providential purposes.

different narratives about St. AEthelthryth arising from varying languages, places of production, lay or ecclesiastical agendas, and contexts of reception. This range of focus is enhanced by illustrations, figures, and tables that assist the reader to negotiate the vast amount of material presented and analysed with care and skill. The appendix (295-306), listing images of the focal saint is particularly useful. Similarly, Blanton's practice of recapping her argument in this vast study, especially at the beginning of chapters, helps the reader keep track of the developments narrated and the significances argued. As the first monograph study of the cult of St AEthelthryth in England throughout the Middle Ages, this book is an important and detailed account of the creation, flexibility, and context-specific purposes of devotional narratives about this saint.

This article sets out to remedy an historiographical oversight in Australian history by identifying the principal characteristics of the religious culture of Anglican clergy in the colony of Western Australia between 1830 and about 1870. Using sources, both personal from clergy or clergy wives, and official correspondence with the colonial governments, and clergy correspondence to mission societies and their bishop, a number of features of clergy religion are delineated. They enable a comparison to be made between metropolitan and colonial Anglican clergy cultures. These include anxieties about status and income; the involvement of the clergy in charity, education, church building, and public worship; isolation and religious competition. While many of these were familiar to English clergy, they took on new aspects in the colonial context, which required the clergy there to become conscious that the colony was a new land, however much they attempted to remake it in their own ecclesiastical image.

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