This article investigates how the SPCK, Church of England's major nineteenth-century publishing house, encouraged what it saw as correct participation in church-administered rites passage, by mass production tracts. SPCK's elaborate editorial policy meant that tracts provide a rare glimpse into can be assumed to officially sanctioned voice, giving significance beyond their survival ephemeral re...

The seventh-century Easter controversy raised questions of orthodoxy and the consequent authority clergy to minister rites. References rites passage are present in three most important sources written early eighth-century Northumbria: Vita Wilfridi Vitae Cuthberti . This article uses examine two debates, concerning Bishop Wilfrid's continental credentials relationship between How authors use th...