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Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th-15th Centuries - The Essays of John A.F. Thomson (Paperback)
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Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th-15th Centuries - The Essays of John A.F. Thomson (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in
British history, with particular emphasis on political change and
popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs
were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control
of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical
movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a
cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the
eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume
demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro
changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But
the studies presented here frequently explore major change through
the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local
government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making
important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics
charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking
at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to
appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were
profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth
century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship,
date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our
understanding of late medieval British history.
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