Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham
Margaret Harvey
Although religious life in medieval Durham was ruled by its prince bishop and priory, the laity flourished and played a major role in the affairs of the parish, as Margaret Harvey demonstrates. Using a variety of sources, she provides a complete account of its history from the Conquest to the Dissolution of the priory, with a particular emphasis on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She shows how the laity interacted vigorously with both bishop and priory, and the relations between them, with the priory providing schools, hospitals, chantries and regular sermons, but also acting as a disciplinary force. On a wider level, she also looks at the whole question of lay religion and what can be discovered about it. She finishes by an examination of local reactions to the Reformation. | |
DETAILS
2 line illustrations
Pages: 246
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9781843832775
Binding: Hardback
First published: 16/Nov/2006
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series: Regions and Regionalism in History
Subject: Medieval History
BIC class: HBCH
STATUS: Available
Details updated on 03/07/2009
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Contents
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The parishes
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The year in the life of the laity
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Lay parish life
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Laity and Church: obligations and conflicts I
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Laity and Church: obligations and conflicts II
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Secular clergy careers
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Education
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Chantries
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Associations, Guilds and Confraternities
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Hospitals and other charities
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Durham and the wider world
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The Reformation in the Durham Parishes
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Reviews
[A] meticulously researched and detailed book.
Harvey's excellent book contributes to substantially to our understanding of Durham's late medieval church administration and how it engaged with the lay population.
This book is recommended to anyone with an interest in the institutional history of the late medieval church. CHURCH HISTORY JOURNAL
Filled with minutiae gleaned from a careful reading of all the pertinent original sources, woven into a story that is at once expansive yet personal, local in nature, and, at times, extremely intimate.
This excellent book illuminates well late medieval Durham and stands as a good example to all scholars of how to conduct highly localized research. SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL
A welcome addition to the growing list of local studies on pre-Reformation religious life. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
The author is an expert guide through the complexities of parochial organisation, and she provides what must be the fullest account yet of the medieval development of the city parishes. NORTHERN HISTORY
[A] comprehensive, scholarly study. [...] [An] important book [and] an engrossing study of the period. NORTHERN CATHOLIC HISTORY, no.48, 2007
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