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The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 18) by James G. Clark; Barbara Harvey; Benjamin Thompson; Claire Cross; Donald Logan; Glyn Coppack; Jeremy Catto; Joan Greatrex; Marilyn Oliva; Dr Michael J.P. Robson; Peter Cunich; Robert N Swanson; Vincent Gillespie is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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Essays provide evidence for the vigour and involvement of religious orders in the years immediately prior to the reformation. It continues to be assumed in some quarters that England's monasteries and mendicant convents fell into a headlong decline - pursuing high living and low morals - long before Henry VIII set out to destroy them at the Dissolution.The essays in this book add to the growing body of scholarly enquiry which challenges this view. Drawing on some of the most recent research by British and American scholars, they offer a wide-ranging reassessment of the religiousorders on the eve of the Reformation. They consider not only the condition of their communities and the character of life within them, but also their wider contribution - spiritual, intellectual and economic - to English societyat large. What emerges is the impression that the years leading up to the Dissolution were neither as dark nor as difficult for the regular religious as many earlier histories have led us to believe. It was a period of institutional and religious reform, and, for the Benedictines at least, a period of marked intellectual revival. Many religious houses also continued to enjoy close rel
- Author
- James G. Clark; Barbara Harvey; Benjamin Thompson; Claire Cross; Donald Logan; Glyn Coppack; Jeremy Catto; Joan Greatrex; Marilyn Oliva; Dr Michael J.P. Robson; Peter Cunich; Robert N Swanson; Vincent Gillespie
- Publisher
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780851159003
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, History
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