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This significant and innovative collection explores the changing
piety of townspeople and villagers before, during and after the
Reformation. It brings together leading and new scholars from
England and the Netherlands to present new research on a subject of
importance to historians of society and religion in late medieval
and early modern Europe. Contributors examine the diverse evidence
for transitions in piety and the processes of these changes. The
volume incorporates a range of approaches including social,
cultural and religious history, literary and manuscript studies,
social anthropology and archaeology. This is, therefore, an
interdisciplinary volume that constitutes a cultural history of
changing pieties in the period c. 1400-1640. Contributors focus on
a number of specific themes using a range of types of evidence and
theoretical approaches. Some chapters make detailed reconstructions
of specific communities, groups and individuals; some offer
perceptive and useful analyses of theoretical and comparative
approaches to transition and to piety; and others closely examine
cultural practices, ideas and tastes. Through this range of
detailed work, which brings to light previously unknown sources as
well as new approaches to more familiar sources, contributors
address a number of questions arising from recent published work on
late medieval and early modern piety and reformation. Individually
and collectively, the chapters in this volume offer an important
contribution to the field of late medieval and early modern piety.
They highlight, for the first time, the centrality of processes of
transition in the experience and practice of religion. Offering a
refreshingly new approach to the subject, this volume raises timely
theoretical and methodological questions that will be of interest
to a broad audience.
The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the
Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on the early
Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the
late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative study,
Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences of six men
and women of the early Renaissance and leads us on a quest to
reconstruct their lost cultural worlds. The six men and women are
all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns
of Henry VII and Henry VIII: Gilbert Banaster, present at the court
of Henry VII in the guise of writer and musician; The Anonymous
Witness, spectator to the marriage of Prince Arthur and Katherine
of Aragon; William Cornish, playwright and musician at Henry VIII's
household; Elizabeth Philip, silk trader to the royal court; Dame
Katherine Styles, whose biography is recreated through her will;
and William Buckley, Educator and Schoolmaster to King Edward VI.
Salter presents an exemplary model of how it is possible to
reconstruct biography from sometimes fragmentary sources. The
connections drawn between these six individuals display ample
evidence for the cultural innovation and sophistication of these
courts in terms of pageantry, music, the visual arts, fashions in
luxury consumption, scientific discovery and literary invention.
When all six lives are added together as a whole, the book will
lead the reader to a richer understanding of the cultural context
of the early English Renaissance.
This 1988 volume, collected here are the principal essays of
Elizabeth Salter published between 1966 and her death in 1980,
together with three chapters of a book on the literary culture of
England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries on which she was
working in the last years of her life, and a version of her
brilliant lectures on the theme of the Annuciation to the Shepherds
in literature, drama and art given during those years. Elizabeth
Salter is recognised as one of the most distinguished medieval
scholars of her generation, particularly noted for her work on
Langland and Chaucer, and on the relationship of literature and the
visual arts. The strength and consistency of her views, the
persistent and urgent nature of her preoccupations, and the depth
of scholarship and skill of presentation, all emerge more clearly
than ever in this volume.
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