This book offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between the church, society and religion across five centuries of change. Andrew Brown examines how the teachings of an increasingly universal Church were applied at a local level and how social change shaped the religious practices of the laity. His approach encompasses the structures of corporate religion, the devotional practices surrounding cults and saints, the effects of literacy (not least on the development of heresy), and how gender, class and political power affected and fragmented the expression of religion.
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'Brown has got his mind around the issues in current debates and gives thoughtful, balanced and interesting comments. Mastery of the sources and especially secondary literature is shown in the very full and helpful footnotes and bibliography. Altogether recommended for BA and Masters level students.' - Professor Norman Tanner, Gregorian University, Rome
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Andrew Brown is Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Classics at the University of Edinburgh.
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About the year 1001, a peasant ploughing a field at Slepe, in a manor belonging to the abbey of Ramsey, stumbled upon the bones of four bodies hidden in the soil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
penitential strategies, pastoral reform, late medieval parish, corporate religion, perpetual chantries, clerical approval, parochial rights, late medieval religion, pastoral efforts, penitential literature, parish structure, minster churches, late medieval towns, synodal decrees, homiletic literature, medieval churchmen, royal saints, clerical institutions, later fourteenth century Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Black Death, Corpus Christi, Anglo-Saxon England, Margery Kempe, Virgin Mary, Wimborne Minster, King's Lynn, Walter Hilton, Bishop Grosseteste, Dance of Death, Hugh of Lincoln, Margery Baxter, Nicholas Love, Richard Rolle, William of Malmesbury, Archbishop Pecham, Fourth Lateran Council, Gilbert of Sempringham, John Mirk, Mary of Oignies, Pope Gregory, Ten Commandments, Thomas Becket, Walter Map New!
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penitential strategies, pastoral reform, late medieval parish, corporate religion, perpetual chantries, clerical approval, parochial rights, late medieval religion, pastoral efforts, penitential literature, parish structure, minster churches, late medieval towns, synodal decrees, homiletic literature, medieval churchmen, royal saints, clerical institutions, later fourteenth century Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Black Death, Corpus Christi, Anglo-Saxon England, Margery Kempe, Virgin Mary, Wimborne Minster, King's Lynn, Walter Hilton, Bishop Grosseteste, Dance of Death, Hugh of Lincoln, Margery Baxter, Nicholas Love, Richard Rolle, William of Malmesbury, Archbishop Pecham, Fourth Lateran Council, Gilbert of Sempringham, John Mirk, Mary of Oignies, Pope Gregory, Ten Commandments, Thomas Becket, Walter Map New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 9 pages
- Pilgrimage in Medieval England by Diana Webb on 6 pages
- The Saints of Cornwall by Nicholas Orme on 5 pages
- Medieval England: From Hastings to Bosworth by Edmund King on 4 pages
- Making of Britain: Middle Ages (The making of Britain) by Lesley M. Smith on 4 pages
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