Author: Robert Edmond Chester WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Parish Registers in England
Author: Robert Edmond Chester WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
GUIDE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO ENGLISH AND FOREIGN HERALDRY AND GENEALOGY
Author: GEORGE GATFIELDThe Parish in English Life, 1400-1600
Author: Katherine L. FrenchPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The first comprehensive survey of the religious, social and cultural life of late medieval and Reformation parishes covers town and country, northern as well as southern communities, and provides an indication of the European setting just before and just after the enormous social and religious changes of the 16th century. 15 illustrations.
Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England
Author: Will CosterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351955993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Despite the importance of the subject to contemporaries, this is the first monograph to look at the institution of godparenthood in early modern English society. Utilising a wealth of hitherto largely neglected primary source data, this work explores godparenthood, using it as a framework to illuminate wider issues of spiritual kinship and theological change. It has become increasingly common for general studies of family and religious life in pre-industrial England to make reference to the spiritual kinship evident in the institution of godparenthood. However, although there have been a number of important studies of the impact of the institution in other periods, this is the first detailed monograph devoted to the subject in early modern England. This study is possible due to the survival, contrary to many expectations, of relatively large numbers of parish registers that recorded the identities of godparents in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By utilising this hitherto largely neglected data, in conjunction with evidence gleaned from over 20,000 Wills and numerous other biographical, legal and theological sources, Coster has been able to explore fully the institution of godparenthood and the role it played in society. This book takes the opportunity to study an institution which interacted with a range of social and cultural factors, and to assess the nature of these elements within early modern English society. It also allows the findings of such an investigation to be compared with the assumptions that have been made about the fortunes of the institution in the context of a changing European society. The recent historiography of religion in this period has focused attention on popular elements of religious practice, and stressed the conservatism of a society faced with dramatic theological and ritual change. In this context a study of godparenthood can make a contribution to understanding how religious change occurred and the ways in which popular religious practice was affected.
The Month
Author: The Month: A Catholic Magazine and Review
Author: Rev. Joseph StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
the new england historical and genealogical register
Author: Climate and Culture
Author: Giuseppe FeolaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.
The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer
Author: A history of England in the eighteenth century
Author: William Edward H. LeckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description