Piety Fraternity And Power

Author : David J. F. Crouch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0952973448

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Piety, Fraternity, and Power by David J. F. Crouch Pdf

Detailed investigation of the religious gild, showing its importance to all aspects of medieval life. The religious gild was central to the structure of late medieval society, providing lay people with a focus for public expressions of orthodox piety that accorded with the doctrinal views of government between 1399 and 1531. Usingevidence from the county of Yorkshire, this book argues that beyond their devotional and ceremonial roles, the influence of these basically pious institutions permeated all aspects of late medieval political, social and economicactivity. The author begins by discussing the evidence for Yorkshire gilds in the late fourteenth century, moving on to survey the changing distribution, development, and membership of fraternities throughout the county over the next century and a half. Special attention is given to the ways in which the religious gilds of Yorkshire interacted with town government, with clerical bodies, with occupational organisations, and with one another, illustrated with detailed case-studies of the gilds of Corpus Christi, York, and St Mary in Holy Trinity, Hull, which are particularly well-documented. The final section of the book deals with the decline and disappearance of religious gilds during the Reformation, showing how their devotional purposes were eroded by the new policies of central government and how many gilds anticipated their official dissolution. DAVID J.F. CROUCH gained his D.Phil fromthe University of York.

Author : Richard Barrie Dobson,David Michael Smith
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clothing trade
ISBN : 1904497160

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The Merchant Taylors of York by Richard Barrie Dobson,David Michael Smith Pdf

Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403937391

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Church And Society In England 1000-1500 by Andrew Brown Pdf

What impact did the Church have on society? How did social change affect religious practice? Within the context of these wide-ranging questions, this study offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between Church, society and religion in England across five centuries of change. Andrew Brown examines how the teachings of an increasingly 'universal' Church decisively affected the religious life of the laity in medieval England. However, by exploring a broad range of religious phenomena, both orthodox and heretical (including corporate religion and the devotional practices surrounding cults and saints) Brown shows how far lay people continued to shape the Church at a local level. In the hands of the laity, religious practices proved malleable. Their expression was affected by social context, status and gender, and even influenced by those in authority. Yet, as Brown argues, religion did not function simply as an expression of social power - hierarchy, patriarchy and authority could be both served and undermined by religion. In an age in which social mobility and upheaval, particularly in the wake of the Black Death, had profound effects on religious attitudes and practices, Brown demonstrates that our understanding of late medieval religion should be firmly placed within this context of social change.

Author : Ken Farnhill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1903153050

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Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, C. 1470-1550 by Ken Farnhill Pdf

The social and religious functions of the fraternities are then compared with the parish, through a study of the records of two Norfolk market towns (Wymondham and Swaffham) and two Suffolk villages (Bardwell and Cratfield). The evidence illuminates the role of the guilds in the social and religious life of the local community, along with their position within the parish hierarchy. A final chapter studies the fortunes of the guilds during the early years of the Reformation, up to their dissolution in 1548"--Jacket.

Author : Ryan McDermott
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268087098

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Tropologies by Ryan McDermott Pdf

Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative” demands that words be turned into works—books as well as deeds. Beginning with Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, then treating monuments of exegesis such as the Glossa ordinaria and Nicholas of Lyra, as well as theorists including Thomas Aquinas, Erasmus, Martin Luther, and others, Tropologies reveals the unwritten history of a major hermeneutical theory and inventive practice. Late medieval and early Reformation writers adapted tropological theory to invent new biblical poetry and drama that would invite readers to participate in salvation history by inventing their own new works. Tropologies reinterprets a wide range of medieval and early modern texts and performances—including the Patience-Poet, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, the York and Coventry cycle plays, and the literary circles of the reformist King Edward VI—to argue that “tropological invention” provided a robust alternative to rhetorical theories of literary production. In this groundbreaking revision of literary history, the Bible and biblical hermeneutics, commonly understood as sources of tumultuous discord, turn out to provide principles of continuity and mutuality across the Reformation’s temporal and confessional rifts. Each chapter pursues an argument about poetic and dramatic form, linking questions of style and aesthetics to exegetical theory and theology. Because Tropologies attends to the flux of exegetical theory and practice across a watershed period of intellectual history, it is able to register subtle shifts in literary production, fine-tuning our sense of how literature and religion mutually and dynamically informed and reformed each other.

Author : Simon Ditchfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351951739

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Christianity and Community in the West by Simon Ditchfield Pdf

How did Christians in early modern Western Europe express their sense of community? This book explores the various ways in which religious identities were defined, developed and defended - within both Protestant and Roman Catholic contexts, in England and on the Continent - over a period vital for the history of Christianity. As such it will be of interest not only to historians of religion but also to students of social and cultural history in general.

Author : Stephen Henry Rigby,Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199689545

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Historians on Chaucer by Stephen Henry Rigby,Alastair J. Minnis Pdf

As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relations and social inequalities of their time. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, medieval historians have played little part in this 'historical turn' in the study of medieval literature. The aim of this volume is to allow historians who are experts in the fields of economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual history the chance to interpret one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales, in its contemporary context. Rather than resorting to traditional historical attempts to see Chaucer's descriptions of the Canterbury pilgrims as immediate reflections of historical reality or as portraits of real life people whom Chaucer knew, the contributors to this volume have sought to show what interpretive frameworks were available to Chaucer in order to make sense of reality and how he adapted his literary and ideological inheritance so as to engage with the controversies and conflicts of his own day. Beginning with a survey of recent debates about the social meaning of Chaucer's work, the volume then discusses each of the Canterbury pilgrims in turn. Historians on Chaucer should be of interest to all scholars and students of medieval culture whether they are specialists in literature or history.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998779

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A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages by S. H. Rigby Pdf

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004365834

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Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives by Anonim Pdf

The interdisciplinary volume Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion, with chapters that extend the temporality of objects and buildings beyond the Middle Ages.

Author : Sarah Rees Jones
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0903857677

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The Government of Medieval York by Sarah Rees Jones Pdf

Author : G. L. Harriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199211197

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Shaping the Nation by G. L. Harriss Pdf

The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss illuminates a richly varied society, as chronicled in The Canterbury Tales, and examines its developing sense of national identity.

Author : Gervase Rosser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191054570

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The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages by Gervase Rosser Pdf

Guilds and fraternities, voluntary associations of men and women, proliferated in medieval Europe. The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages explores the motives and experiences of the many thousands of men and women who joined together in these family-like societies. Rarely confined to a single craft, the diversity of guild membership was of its essence. Setting the English evidence in a European context, this study is not an institutional history, but instead is concerned with the material and non-material aims of the brothers and sisters of the guilds. Gervase Rosser addresses the subject of medieval guilds in the context of contemporary debates surrounding the identity and fulfilment of the individual, and the problematic question of his or her relationship to a larger society. Unlike previous studies, The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages does not focus on the guilds as institutions but on the social and moral processes which were catalysed by participation. These bodies founded schools, built bridges, managed almshouses, governed small towns, shaped religious ritual, and commemorated the dead, perceiving that association with a fraternity would be a potential catalyst of personal change. Participants cultivated the formation of new friendships between individuals, predicated on the understanding that human fulfilment depended upon a mutually transformative engagement with others. The peasants, artisans, and professionals who joined the guilds sought to change both their society and themselves. The study sheds light on the conception and construction of society in the Middle Ages, and suggests further that this evidence has implications for how we see ourselves.

Author : Robert Tittler,Norman L. Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405189743

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A Companion to Tudor Britain by Robert Tittler,Norman L. Jones Pdf

A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry Bibliographies point readers to further sources of information

Author : David Michael Smith
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : York (England)
ISBN : 0903857782

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The Church in Medieval York by David Michael Smith Pdf

Author : James Bothwell,P. J. P. Goldberg,W. M. Ormrod
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1903153042

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The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-century England by James Bothwell,P. J. P. Goldberg,W. M. Ormrod Pdf

Papers from the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century held at the University of York in July 1998.