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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.
This text surveys all aspects of the Church's structure, role and
relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture
that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of
conventional wisdom and the varied sources also provide a vivid
insight into Tudor life.
This text surveys all aspects of the Church's structure, role and
relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture
that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of
conventional wisdom and the varied sources also provide a vivid
insight into Tudor life.
From its origins in the ancient world as a rival to traditional
paganism, Christianity has become one of the great world religions.
How the Church took over spiritual control of Western Europe to
become the foundation of medieval life, setting the moral agenda of
society and dominating its intellectual world, is the guiding
enquiry at the heart of this book. Covering the period between the
fall of the Roman Empire and the Reformation, the account is
structured in three chronological blocks, starting with the gradual
development of unity within the Western Church up to the 11th
century, followed by the period of centralization between the 11th
and 13th centuries, and concluding with the break-up of this
centralization in the later Middle Ages. Organizational
developments and changes in spirituality and doctrine are examined,
and the history of the papacy is situated in the wider context of
both ecclesiastical and lay society. Intellectual developments and
the rise of heresy, at both elite and popular levels, are the focus
of an exploration of the mental world of medieval Christendom.
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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