The Parish In Late Medieval England
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The People of the Parish
Author | : Katherine L. French |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812201957 |
The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and entertainment brought people to the church, uniting secular and sacred concerns. In The People of the Parish, Katherine L. French contends that late medieval religion was participatory and flexible, promoting different kinds of spiritual and material involvement. The rich parish records of the small diocese of Bath and Wells include wills, court records, and detailed accounts by lay churchwardens of everyday parish activities. They reveal the differences between parishes within a single diocese that cannot be attributed to regional variation. By using these records show to the range and diversity of late medieval parish life, and a Christianity vibrant enough to accommodate differences in status, wealth, gender, and local priorities, French refines our understanding of lay attitudes toward Christianity in the two centuries before the Reformation.
Mass and Parish in Late Medieval England
Author | : P. S. Barnwell |
Publisher | : Fleming H. Revell Company |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The medieval parish church was central to most people's lives, and the Mass, the characteristic pre-Reformation service, exercised a defining influence upon the lives of clergy and laity alike. The laity were expected to attend Mass every Sunday and Holy Day; for many, daily Mass was also a reality. The role of the Mass was enhanced by the dominant belief in Purgatory, since celebration of Masses reduced the length of time the soul remained there. All this was swept away by the sixteenth-century Reformation. This book, written by authors from different disciplines, explores the importance of late-medieval parish religion against the backcloth of medieval York. How many Parish churches were there? What was the form of the Mass and how was it celebrated? How were the church interiors arranged and how were they decorated? What contribution did music make? What was it like to be a cleric at the time? What changes did the Reformation bring? A substantial appendix provides a reconstruction of the pre-Reformation Mass as celebrated in York. This is a real work of scholarship by authors who are leaders in their specialism, and essential reading for all interested in the middle ages.
Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England
Author | : Ellen K. Rentz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780814273777 |
Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England
Author | : Ellen K. Rentz |
Publisher | : Interventions: New Studies Med |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814212752 |
Collective worship and the ritual life of the local parish mattered deeply to late medieval laypeople, and both loom large in contemporary visual and vernacular culture. The parish offered an important framework for Christians as they negotiated the relationship between individual, community, and God. And as a place where past, present, and future came together, the parish promised an ongoing relationship between the living and the dead, positioning the here and now of the local parish in the long trajectory of eschatological time. Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England explores the ways in which Middle English literature engages the idea of lay spiritual community and the ideal of parochial worship. Ellen K. Rentz pairs nuanced readings of works such as Piers Plowman, Handlyng Synne, and the Prick of Conscience with careful analysis of contemporary sermons, spiritual handbooks, and liturgical texts as well as a wide range of visual sources, including wall paintings and stained glass. This new study examines how these texts and images locate the process of achieving salvation in the parish and in the work that parishioners undertook there together.
Going to Church in Medieval England
Author | : Nicholas Orme |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300256507 |
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains who went to church, who did not attend, how people behaved there, and how they--not merely the clergy--affected how worship was staged. The book provides an accessible account of what happened in the daily and weekly services, and how churches marked the seasons of Christmas, Lent, Easter, and summer. It describes how they celebrated the great events of life: birth, coming of age, and marriage, and gave comfort in sickness and death. A final chapter covers the English Reformation in the sixteenth century and shows how, alongside its changes, much that went on in parish churches remained as before.
Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages
Author | : Gabriel Byng |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1107157099 |
The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.
The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600
Author | : Katherine L. French |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780719049538 |
The first comprehensive survey of the religious, social and cultural life of late medieval and Reformation parishes covers town and country, northern as well as southern communities, and provides an indication of the European setting just before and just after the enormous social and religious changes of the 16th century. 15 illustrations.
Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London
Author | : Gary G. Gibbs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780367134020 |
All Hallows London Wall, 1455-1536: fundraising and collaboration -- St. Michael Cornhill: foundational transformations, ca. 1450 to 1610 -- St. Stephen Coleman Street: living on the margins -- St. Botolph Aldgate: accounting for reform, 1547-1554 -- St. Peter Westcheap: crossing the divide.