1st Edition

Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 1066-1272

By Henry Mayr-Harting Copyright 2011
378 Pages
by Routledge

378 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

The period from 1066 to 1272, from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry III, was one of enormous political change in England and of innovation in the Church as a whole. Religion, Politics and Society 1066-1272 charts the many ways in which a constantly changing religious culture impacted on a social and political system which was itself dominated by clerics, from the parish to the kingdom.... Read more

Introduction. 1 Church and Economy in the Long Twelfth Century 2    The Church and the Norman Conquest 3.     Henry I and His Religion. 4 The Conflict Between Henry II and Thomas Becket. 5 Parishes and Parish Priests 6    The Monastic Century 1066–1216 7 Archbishop Hubert Walter and St Hugh of Lincoln: Church and King in the late Twelfth Century 8 Intellectual Life and Culture and How Related to Politics in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries 9 The Early English Franciscans 10 Changes and Continuities under Henry III

Biography

Henry Mayr-Hartingis a Fellow Emeritus in Medieval History at St Peter's College, Oxford, and was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History from 1997 until his retirement in 2003. He is the author of a number of works on Medieval history, including most recently Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany (2007).