Full Index ‘D’

Dalfinus, Archbishop of Lyons 41

Dalton, Hugh 536

Danby, Lord (Thomas Osborne) 358, 359–60

Danegeld 74–5, 76

Danelaw 61, 62, 65, 83, 84

Dante, Divine Comedy 182, 184

Darby, John Nelson 462

Dark Ages 23, 158

Darwin, Charles 471–3

Davidson, Randall, Archbishop of Canterbury 496, 498, 505, 507, 508, 520, 522, 530

Davies, D. R. 527

Davies, Sir John 343

Davison, Emily 505, 590

De heretico comburendo (Act of Parliament, 1401) 220

De Montfort, Simon 124–7

De Rosa, Peter 554

Deane, Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury 237

death, medieval beliefs 182–8

death penalty, abolition (1965) 546

Decade of Evangelism 568

Declaration of Breda (1660) 349, 353

Declaration of Indulgence (1672) 354, 355, 358, 370

Defenestration of Prague 325

Defoe, Daniel 383, 384

Deira, kingdom of 27, 32, 33, 37

Deism 382, 391

Delamotte, Charles 395

Delaney, Mrs 435

Denison, George 469, 476

Denman, Thomas 425

Descartes, René 365, 367

Desert Fathers and Mothers 34, 138

Despenser, Henry le, Bishop of Norwich 147

Despenser, Hugh 134

Deusdedit, Archbishop of Canterbury 40

Dickens, Charles 431, 468

Diggers 338, 342, 347

Dimbleby, Richard 538

Dio, Cassius (Roman historian) 7, 9, 13

dioceses/ diocesan ministry 41, 68–9, 94, 146–7, 490, 506, 519

Diocletian, Emperor 3, 13, 14

Dionysius the Areopagite 199, 206

disestablishmentarianism 478

Dispensationalism 462

disputation 160, 165, 174

Disraeli, Benjamin 451, 453, 477–8, 479–80

Dissenters

origins during the Commonwealth 348, 349

persecution of 353–6

and the Toleration Act (1689) 382

growth of (18th century) 387

repeal of the Occasional Conformity Act (1719) 391

campaign for independence (19th century) 441–2

and burial 488–9

 see also Non-Conformists

Dissenters’ Chapel Bill (1844) 462

Dissolution of the Monasteries 155, 255–6

Divorce Act (1857) 488

Divorce Law Reform Act (1969) 546

Dodd, C. H. 524, 527

Doddridge, Philip 419

Domesday Book 83, 91–2

Dominic, St 142, 143

Dominicans 142–4, 155, 172, 178, 217

Dominion, Jack 554

Donatist controversy 15

Donatus 173

Donne, John 311, 326, 327–8, 330, 582

Douai, France 310, 311, 402

Douglas-Home, Alec 543

Downey, Richard, Archbishop of Liverpool 526

Drake, Francis 313, 330

Dream of the Rood (poem) 49

Drogheda massacre 343

Druids 6

Dudley, Edmund, Lord 237, 238

Dudley, Guildford, Lord 281, 283

Dudley-Smith, Timothy 586

Duffy, Eamon 196, 280

Dummonii (tribe) 21

Dunbar, Battle of (1650) 344

Duncan-Jones, Arthur 529

Dunn, James 560, 573

Duns Scotus, John 163, 171, 178, 179, 216, 581

Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury; Archbishop of Canterbury 69–70, 72, 73, 94

Durham Cathedral 45

Dykes, J. B. 585