The Reformation of the English Parish Church

The Reformation of the English Parish Church
Title The Reformation of the English Parish Church PDF eBook
Author Robert Whiting
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2014-11-06
Genre History
ISBN 9781107460355

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In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence, including court records, wills and church wardens' accounts, and by examining the material remains themselves - such as screens, fonts, paintings, monuments, windows and other artefacts - found in churches today, Robert Whiting reveals how, why and by whom these ancient buildings were transformed. He explores the reasons why Catholics revered the artefacts found in churches as well as why these objects became the subject of Protestant suspicion and hatred in subsequent years. This richly illustrated account sheds new light on the acts of destruction as well as the acts of creation that accompanied religious change over the course of the 'long' Reformation.

Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain

Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain
Title Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain PDF eBook
Author Alec Ryrie
Publisher Routledge
Pages 272
Release 2016-02-11
Genre History
ISBN 1134785771

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The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English population, who conformed outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity might have meant has attracted less attention - and, ironically, is sometimes less well documented - than the non-conformity or semi-conformity of recusants, church-papists, Puritan conventiclers or separatists. In this volume, ten leading scholars of early modern religion explore the experience of parish worship in England during the Reformation and the century that followed it. As the contributors argue, parish worship in this period was of critical theological, cultural and even political importance. The volume's key themes are the interlocking importance of liturgy, music, the sermon and the parishioners' own bodies; the ways in which religious change was received, initiated, negotiated, embraced or subverted in local contexts; and the dialectic between practice and belief which helped to make both so contentious. The contributors - historians, historical theologians and literary scholars - through their commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, provide fruitful and revealing insights into this intersection of private and public worship. This collection is a sister volume to Martin and Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain. Together these two volumes focus and drive forward scholarship on the lived experience of early modern religion, as it was practised in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600

The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600
Title The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600 PDF eBook
Author Katherine L. French
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 296
Release 1997
Genre England
ISBN 9780719049538

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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.

The Reformation of the English Parish Church

The Reformation of the English Parish Church
Title The Reformation of the English Parish Church PDF eBook
Author Robert Whiting
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 2010-03-18
Genre History
ISBN 1139486667

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In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence, including court records, wills and church wardens' accounts, and by examining the material remains themselves - such as screens, fonts, paintings, monuments, windows and other artefacts - found in churches today, Robert Whiting reveals how, why and by whom these ancient buildings were transformed. He explores the reasons why Catholics revered the artefacts found in churches as well as why these objects became the subject of Protestant suspicion and hatred in subsequent years. This richly illustrated account sheds new light on the acts of destruction as well as the acts of creation that accompanied religious change over the course of the 'long' Reformation.

Supremacy and Survival

Supremacy and Survival
Title Supremacy and Survival PDF eBook
Author Stephanie A. Mann
Publisher Scepter Publishers
Pages 248
Release 2017-04-07
Genre History
ISBN 1594171181

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Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition

Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition
Title Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition PDF eBook
Author Eamon Duffy
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 326
Release 2014-04-23
Genre History
ISBN 1472909178

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Eamon Duffy publishes a book on the broad sweep of English Reformation history, including a study of Late Medieval religion and society.

Reformation and the English People

Reformation and the English People
Title Reformation and the English People PDF eBook
Author JJ Scarisbrick
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages 216
Release 1991-01-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780631147558

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The complex web of events which we call the Reformation had a profound and lasting effect on English life. This book is a new attempt to understand how it 'happened' and how English men and women responded to it. Using the evidence of wills and account-books, examining late medieval church building and, above all, the striking popularity of the lay fraternity, Professor Scarisbrick argues that there was little violent discontent with the old Church on the eve of the Reformation - that, on the whole, English layfolk had been able to fashion a Church which suited their needs well enough. The main thrust for the ensuring changes came from 'above' and was rarely accompanied by the fierce anticlericialism and iconoclasm that was often a feature of the continental Reformation. Professor Scarisbrick examines the unparalleled spoliation of religious houses, shrines, colleges, chantries, guilds and parish churches in the years 1536 to 1553, and lay attitudes to it. He argues that the changes encountered more resistance than has often been supposed. The story of what happened to schools and hospitals in Edward VI's reign and the survival and revival of the old faith under (and after) Mary add weight to his arguments. He shows clearly that to describe the Reformation as a victory of layman over cleric is far too simple, and that many of our common assumptions about the Reformation need to be reconsidered.