Author: Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Studies in Church Life in England Under Edward III
Author: England in the Reign of Edward III
Author: Scott L. WaughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521310390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Waugh examines the strains on English life in the remarkable era of Edward III.
Church and Society in the Medieval North of England
Author: R. B. DobsonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852851201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses aspects of church life in each of the three dioceses of Carlisle, Durham and York, identifying the main features of religion in the north and placing contemporary religious attitudes in both a social and a local context
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Author: Richard GamesonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052178218X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
26 expert contributions to this volumes discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing, and decoration), its purpose and readership, and as a vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music).
Selections from English Wycliffite Writings
Author: Medieval Academy of AmericaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802080455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The text is in Middle English with extensive supplemental notes that help to fully explain the context of each work. This new MART edition comes with a revised and updated bibliography by the editor.
The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England
Author: Martin HealePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198702531
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The importance of the medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis. The monastic superiors of late medieval England ruled over thousands of monks and canons, who swore to them vows of obedience; they were prominent figures in royal and church government; and collectively they controlled properties worth around double the Crown's annual ordinary income. Moreover, as guardians of regular observance and the primary interface between their monastery and the wider world, abbots and priors were pivotal to the effective functioning and well-being of the monastic order. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England provides the first detailed study of English male monastic superiors, exploring their evolving role and reputation between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Individual chapters examine the election and selection of late medieval monastic heads; the internal functions of the superior as the father of the community; the head of house as administrator; abbatial living standards and modes of display; monastic superiors' public role in service of the Church and Crown; their external relations and reputation; the interaction between monastic heads and the government in Henry VIII's England; the Dissolution of the monasteries; and the afterlives of abbots and priors following the suppression of their houses. This study of monastic leadership sheds much valuable light on the religious houses of late medieval and early Tudor England, including their spiritual life, administration, spending priorities, and their multi-faceted relations with the outside world. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England also elucidates the crucial part played by monastic superiors in the dramatic events of the 1530s, when many heads surrendered their monasteries into the hands of Henry VIII.
British History: Classification schedule. Classified listing by call number. Chronological listing
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Thirteenth Century England V
Author: Peter R. CossPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Studies in economic, political and social history in 13c England.
The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England
Author: Marilyn OlivaPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Detailed study of female monasticism in the later middle ages, with particular emphasis on the nuns' importance to the local community.
On Simony
Author: John WycliffePublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823213498
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Repeatedly denounced by bishops, local synods, national councils, and popes, simony - the buying and selling of spiritual offices - had enjoyed a centuries-old existence in the church when John Wyclif penned this treatise in the late fourteenth century. The tenth in a series of twelve treatises the English reformer wrote between 1374 and 1382, On Simony forms an integral part of the writings generally considered his summa. Basing his condemnation of simony on an idiosyncratic concept of dominion developed in earlier treatises, Wyclif argues that the church, with its spiritual message and mission, has no right to temporal power or temporal goods. Viewing simony as a form of theft, the selling of spiritual things over which it has no dominion, Wyclif advocates the removal of all property from the church - by secular force, if necessary - and the abolition of ecclesiastical patronage. In the Introduction to this first-ever English translation, Professor McVeigh traces the history of simony in the church and describes the circumstances prompting Wyclif to develop his theory of dominion, showing the decisive influence of this theory on his concept of simony. A brief discussion of the treatise's influence on later reformers, both inside and outside England, follows a thorough, chapter-by-chapter analysis of the treatise itself.