Author: Charles James BillsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leicester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Mediaeval Leicester
Author: Charles James BillsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leicester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Medieval Town in England 1200-1540
Author: Richard HoltPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317899806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The essays span the period from the dramatic urban expansion of the thirteenth century to the crises in the fifteenth century as a result of plague, population decline and changes in the economy. Throughout the breadth of current debates surrounding the history of urban society is fully explored.
The Medieval Chantry in England
Author: Julian M. LuxfordPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040289649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money. At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual benefit of their founders, and the souls of all faithful dead. To Church reformers, they exemplified some of medieval Catholicism’s most egregious errors; but to the orthodox they offered opportunities to influence what occurred in an unknowable afterlife. The eleven essays presented here lead the reader through the earliest manifestations of the chantry, the origins and development of ‘stone-cage’ chapels, royal patronage of commemorative art and architecture, the chantry in the late medieval parish, the provision of music and textiles, and a series of specific chantries created for William of Wykeham, Edmund Audley, Thomas Spring and Abbot Islip, to the eventual history and the cultural consequences of their suppression in the mid-16th century.
Fourteenth Century England VII
Author: W. M. OrmrodPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This series provides a forum for the most recent research into the political, social and ecclesiastical history of the 14th century.
The Old Town Hall, Leicester
Author: Thomas Henry FosbrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leicester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Author: Christopher DyerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300090609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The period covered here saw dramatic alterations in the state of the economy; and this account begins with the forming of villages, towns, networks of exchange and the social hierarchy in the ninth and tenth centuries, and ends with the inflation and population rise of the sixteenth century.".
Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester
Author: Richard BuckleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957479265
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leicestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Finding Richard III:
Author: A.J. CarsonPublisher: Imprimis Imprimatur
ISBN: 0957684037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Their task was to locate a lost grave in an obliterated church. The ‘Looking For Richard’ team of historians and researchers spent many years amassing evidence. Now for the first time they reveal the full story of how that evidence took them to a car park in Leicester.
Church History in Leicestershire
Author: Nick MillerPublisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1835740081
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
Church History in Leicestershire charts the story of religion in England from pre-Christian times to the twentieth century, viewed through events and the eyes and experiences of people in Leicestershire. Weaving together ecclesiastical, political and social strands it chronicles the tortuous tale of religion, churches and the people who worshipped there. Where did churches and chapels come from; who built them, when and why? What significance lies in their looks and names? What made people so devoted to them? Why do they still exist? The book covers sweeping religious and political movements, potentates of church and state, but centre-stage are the clergy, their parishioners, churches and chapels: how they thrived or perished, weathered plague and invasions, grappled with their consciences during the Reformation and Civil Wars, founded powerful new denominations and championed social reform when Leicester(shire) became a hub of Christian Socialism and Secularism. Closing sections reflect on the church’s past and future, as it faces debates as fundamental as any previously encountered.