The Pre-Reformation Church in England 1400-1530 (Seminar Studies)

✍ Scribed by Christopher Harper-Bill

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offers a concise synthesis of the valuable research accomplished in recent years which has transformed our view of religious belief and practice in pre-Reformation England. The author argues that the church was neither in a state of crisis, nor were its members clamouring for change, let alone `reformation' during the early years of Henry VIII's reign.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
EDITORIAL FOREWORD
NOTE ON REFERENCING SYSTEM
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
Part One: The Background
1 THE WESTERN CHURCH IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
Part Two: Analysis
2 THE ENGLISH CHURCH, THE CROWN AND THE PAPACY
Royal power
Papal authority and influence
3 THE ENGLISH BISHOPS
4 THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS
5 THE PARISH CLERGY
6 THE CHURCH COURTS AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
The business of the courts
The effectiveness of the courts
7 RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND PRACTICE
The Mass and the Christian community
Piety and charity
Lay initiative and the problem of anticlericalism
The Lollard challenge
The implications of literacy
A plurality of religious forms
Part Three: Assessment
8 THE POPULARITY AND DIVERSITY OF LATE MEDIEVAL RELIGION
Part Four: Documents
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL UPDATE FOR REVISED EDITION
INDEX