Author : Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851152967
Papers reflecting current research on orthodox religious practice and ecclesiastical organisation from c.1350-c.1500.
Author : Beat A. Kümin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351881981
This book offers a new perspective to the current debate about popular religious attitudes in Tudor England, laying particular emphasis on the social and secular dimensions of parish life. The argument focuses on the role of the laity and especially on the office of churchwarden. It assesses the rising levels of parish income, the importance of the social context for fund-raising strategies, and the growing expenditure on priests, voluntary activities and administrative duties. The final part discusses the Reformation-related reduction in religious options and the intensifying trend towards oligarchical parish regimes and official local government responsibilities. Wherever possible, the English situation is put into sharper focus by comparisons with local ecclesiastical life on the Continent and appendices provide a detailed financial analysis for a large number of parishes.
Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198706197
Lordship and Faith takes as its subject the many hundreds of parish churches built in England in the Middle Ages by the gentry, the knights and esquires, and the lords of country manors. Nigel Saul uses lordly engagement with the parish church as a way of opening up the piety and sociability of the gentry, focusing on the gentry as founders and builders of churches, worshippers in them, holders of church advowsons, and patrons and sponsors of parish communities. Saul also looks at how the gentry's interest in the parish church sat alongside their patronage of the monks and friars, and their use of private chapels in their manor houses. Lordship and Faith seeks to weave together themes in social, religious, and architectural history, examining in all its richness a subject that has hitherto been considered only in journal articles. Written in an accessible way, this volume makes a significant contribution not only to the history of the English gentry but also to the history of the rural parish church, an institution now in the forefront of medieval historical studies.
Author : Tim Cooper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851157528
Traces the careers and fortunes of the last priests ordained before the Reformation.
Author : Gabriel Byng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1108547648
The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay of time, money and labour, and often a new organisational structure to oversee design and management. Who took control and who provided the financing was deeply shaped by local patterns in wealth, authority and institutional development - from small villages with little formal government to settlements with highly unequal populations. This all took place during a period of great economic and social change as communities managed the impact of the Black Death, the end of serfdom and the slump of the mid-fifteenth century. This original and authoritative study provides an account of how economic change, local politics and architecture combined in late-medieval England. It will be of interest to researchers of medieval, socio-economic and art history.
Author : Raluca Radulescu
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719068256
Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.
Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781843830542
"This study charts for the first time the history of the 140 or so daughter houses of English monasteries, which have always been overshadowed by the French cells in England, the so-called alien priories. The first part of the book examines the reasons for the foundation of these monasteries and the relations between dependent priories and their mother houses, bishops and patrons. The second part investigates everyday life in cells, the priories' interaction with their neighbours and their economic viability. The unusual pattern of dissolution of these houses is also revealed. Because of the tremendous bulk of material to survive for English dependencies, this is the most detailed account of a group of small monasteries yet written. Although daughter houses are in many ways unrepresentative of other lesser monasteries, their experience sheds a great deal of light on the world of the small religious house, and suggests that these shadowy institutions were far more central to medieval religion and society than has been appreciated."--BOOK JACKET
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526112884
Aims to assess the spiritual state of England under Catholicism, before the onslaught of the Reformation. It covers the Latin and the Wycliffite bibles, the way Catholicism was disseminated, the mass, parish celebrations, pilgrimage, indulgences, security for the dead and more.
Author : Joseph A. Gribbin
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851157993
Detailed study of monastic life of the English white canons, based on 15c visitation records.
Author : Ken Farnhill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781903153055
The parish and the guild were the two poles round which social and religious life revolved in late medieval England. This study, drawing freely on East Anglian records, shows how influential they were in the lives of their communities in the years before the break with Rome - and provides an implicit commentary on the impact of the Henrician Reformation at parish level. The records of many of the guilds (or fraternities) of East Anglia in the years 1470-1550 are examined for evidence of their form, function and popularity; the spread of fraternities across East Anglia, the size of individual guilds, types of member, and the benefits of guild membership are all studied in detail. The social and religious functions of the fraternities are then compared with the parish, through a study of the records of two Norfolk market towns (Wymondham and Swaffham) and two Suffolk villages (Bardwell and Cratfield). A final chapter studies the fortunes of the guilds during the early years of the Reformation, up to their dissolution in 1548.KEN FARNHILL is research associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.
