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The Last Generation of English Catholic Clergy - Parish Priests in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the Early Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Last Generation of English Catholic Clergy - Parish Priests in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the Early Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
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Traces the careers and fortunes of the last priests ordained before
the Reformation. A central paradox of the English reformation is
that the call to the Catholic priesthood was never more eagerly
answered than on the very eve of religious upheaval. In this
important new study, based on the records of the third largest
diocese in the country, covering six counties of the midlands and
north-west, Dr Cooper traces the careers of the pastoral clergy
from their preparatory education, through ordination and
job-hunting, to the writing of theirwills, often in ripe old age
and having served a single parish through the entirety of the main
period of reform. In this highly `clericalised' society, in which
ten new priests were ordained each year for every arising vacancy,
it was those priests without livings who were the main point of
contact between the church and its people. This `clerical
proletariat', and, indeed, the majority of parochial incumbents,
emerge as conscientious servants of their native communities,
distinguishable from their neighbours by virtue of their
sacramental function rather than their social backgrounds and
general concerns. Throughout, the book argues that the parish
clergy, whose services were ingreater demand than ever before, were
remarkably well integrated into the communities they served and
that popular anticlericalism as an explanatory factor of the
English reformation is difficult to sustain. Dr TIM COOPER has
taught history at the universities of Sheffield, Manchester and
Hull.
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