Eryn M. White is Reader in Welsh History at Aberystwyth University. She has published extensively on religious life in eighteenth-century Wales and the Calvinistic Methodist movement in particular. This study, based on a thesis originally published in Welsh, traces the origins and development of the Welsh Methodist Society or seiat brofiad (‘experience meeting’) in south-west Wales from 1737 to 1750. Among the luminaries who feature in this narrative are the three main leaders of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales: Daniel Rowland (1713–90), Howell Harris (1714–73), and William Williams, Pantycelyn (1717–91). Rowland was the prolific preacher of the movement, Harris its organizer, and Pantycelyn its hymn-writer and theologian. In terms of sources, White draws upon the Calvinistic Methodist Archive, which is preserved in the National Library of Wales, the most important contents of which are the Trevecka manuscripts, named after Howell Harris's home. This collection includes a substantial body of correspondence of...

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