The Grey Friars in Cambridge, 1225-1536
Author : John Richard Humpidge Moorman
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Page : 277 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Franciscans in England
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Author : John Richard Humpidge Moorman
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Page : 277 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Franciscans in England
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Author : John Richard Humpidge Moorman
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Franciscans in Cambridge
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Author : John R. H. Moorman
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Page : 277 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1952
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 1937
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Author : F. Donald Logan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521520225
The 'runaway religious' were monks, canons and friars who had taken vows of religion and who, with benefit of neither permission nor dispensation, fled their monasteries and returned to a life in the world, usually replacing the religious habit with lay clothes. No legal exit for the discontented was permitted - religious vows were like marriage vows in this respect - until the financial crisis caused by the Great Schism created a market in dispensations for priests in religious orders to leave, take benefices, and live as secular priests. The church therefore pursued runaways with her severest penalty, excommunication, in the express hope that penalties would lead to the return of the straying sheep. Once back, whether by free choice or by force, the runaway was received not with a feast for a prodigal but, in a rite of stark severity, with the imposition of penalties deemed suitable for a sinner.
Author : Williell R. Thomson
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888440334
Author : Alastair Minnis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0191003689
As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relations and social inequalities of their time. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, medieval historians have played little part in this 'historical turn' in the study of medieval literature. The aim of this volume is to allow historians who are experts in the fields of economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual history the chance to interpret one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales, in its contemporary context. Rather than resorting to traditional historical attempts to see Chaucer's descriptions of the Canterbury pilgrims as immediate reflections of historical reality or as portraits of real life people whom Chaucer knew, the contributors to this volume have sought to show what interpretive frameworks were available to Chaucer in order to make sense of reality and how he adapted his literary and ideological inheritance so as to engage with the controversies and conflicts of his own day. Beginning with a survey of recent debates about the social meaning of Chaucer's work, the volume then discusses each of the Canterbury pilgrims in turn. Historians on Chaucer should be of interest to all scholars and students of medieval culture whether they are specialists in literature or history.
Author : Lacey Baldwin Smith
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Charles Warren Hollister
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1971
Category : England
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Author : Lacey Baldwin Smith
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Great Britain
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