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Piety, Fraternity and Power - Religious Gilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1389-1547 (Hardcover)
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Piety, Fraternity and Power - Religious Gilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1389-1547 (Hardcover)
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Detailed investigation of the religious gild, showing its
importance to all aspects of medieval life. The religious gild was
central to the structure of late medieval society, providing lay
people with a focus for public expressions of orthodox piety that
accorded with the doctrinal views of government between 1399 and
1531. Usingevidence from the county of Yorkshire, this book argues
that beyond their devotional and ceremonial roles, the influence of
these basically pious institutions permeated all aspects of late
medieval political, social and economicactivity. The author begins
by discussing the evidence for Yorkshire gilds in the late
fourteenth century, moving on to survey the changing distribution,
development, and membership of fraternities throughout the county
over the next century and a half. Special attention is given to the
ways in which the religious gilds of Yorkshire interacted with town
government, with clerical bodies, with occupational organisations,
and with one another, illustrated with detailed case-studies of the
gilds of Corpus Christi, York, and St Mary in Holy Trinity, Hull,
which are particularly well-documented. The final section of the
book deals with the decline and disappearance of religious gilds
during the Reformation, showing how their devotional purposes were
eroded by the new policies of central government and how many gilds
anticipated their official dissolution. DAVID J.F. CROUCH gained
his D.Phil fromthe University of York.
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