1st Edition
Pieties in Transition Religious Practices and Experiences, c.1400–1640
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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This significant and innovative collection explores the changing piety of townspeople and villagers before, during and after the Reformation. It brings together leading and new scholars from England and the Netherlands to present new research on a subject of importance to historians of society and religion in late medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors examine the diverse evidence for... Read more
Introduction; Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies; 1: Geographies and Materialities of Piety; 2: Martyrs of the Marsh; Institutions as Evidence for Transitions in Piety; 3: The Poor, Hospitals and Charity in Sixteenth-century Canterbury *; 4: ‘There hath not bene any gramar scole kepte, preacher maytened or pore people releved, other then … by the same chauntreye’; 5: The Continuum of Resistance to Tithe, c . 1400–1600 *; 6: A Quantitative Approach to Late Medieval Transformations of Piety in the Low Countries; Reading and Representation; 7: ‘Some Tomb for a Remembraunce’; 8: ‘The Dayes Moralised’; 9: Writing and Silence; Afterword
Biography
Robert Lutton University of Nottingham, UK. Elisabeth Salter is from the Department of English, University of Wales-Aberystwyth, UK.
’Each individual essay is well-researched, detailed, and thought-provoking: together, the connections and contrasts which are visible within a relatively defined geographical area give a much fuller picture of the variety and depth of pious practices across a time of religious upheaval.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’... detailed and thought-provoking essays... The chronological span of this volume is particularly useful, demonstrating the value of avoiding clear cut-off points between the late medieval and early modern periods.’ Ecclesiastical History
