The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0851159001 ISBN 13 : 9780851159003

Editeur : The Boydell Press, 2002

Synopsis

It continues to be assumed in some quarters that England's monasteries and mendicant convents fell into a headlong decline - pursuing high living and low morals - long before Henry VIII set out to destroy them at the Dissolution. The essays in this book add to the growing body of scholarly enquiry which challenges this view. Drawing on some of the most recent research by British and American scholars, they offer a wide-ranging reassessment of the religious orders on the eve of the Reformation. They consider not only the condition of their communities and the character of life within them, but also their wider contribution - spiritual, intellectual and economic - to English society at large. What emerges is the impression that the years leading up to the Dissolution were neither as dark nor as difficult for the regular religious as many earlier histories have led us to believe. It was a period of institutional and religious reform, and, for the Benedictines at least, a period of marked intellectual revival. Many religious houses also continued to enjoy close relations with the lay communities living beyond their precinct walls. While their role in the devotions of many ordinary lay folk may have diminished, they still had a significant part to play in the local economy, in education and in a wide range of social and cultural activities. Contributors: JEREMY CATTO, JAMES G. CLARK, GLYN COPPACK, CLAIRE CROSS, PETER CUNICH, VINCENT GILLESPIE, JOAN GREATEX, BARBARA HARVEY, F. DONALD LOGAN, MARILYN OLIVA, MICHAEL ROBSON, R.N. SWANSON, BENJAMIN THOMPSON.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Professor of History, University of Exeter having previously graduated from Bristol and Oxford.

Barbara Harvey is Emeritus fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

F. DONALD LOGAN is Professor Emeritus of History at Emmanuel College, Boston, and Honorary Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

Michael Robson is an emeritus fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Boydell Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0851159001
• ISBN 13: 9780851159003
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Éditeur: Clark James G.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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