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Church and Society in England 1000-1500 (Social History in Perspective) Paperback - 2003 - 2003rd Edition
by Andrew Brown
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- Title Church and Society in England 1000-1500 (Social History in Perspective)
- Author Andrew Brown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2003rd
- Edition 2003
- Condition New
- Pages 253
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, London
- Date 2003
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0333691458
- ISBN 9780333691458 / 0333691458
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.68 x 5.5 x 0.58 in (22.05 x 13.97 x 1.47 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects England - Church history - 1066-1485, Christian sociology - England - History - To
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003049832
- Dewey Decimal Code 274.204
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About the year 1001, a peasant ploughing a field at Slepe, in a manor belonging to the abbey of Ramsey, stumbled upon the bones of four bodies hidden in the soil.
From the rear cover
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.
