Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham 1st Edition
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Full Title

Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham 1st Edition
Author(s)

Margaret Harvey
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9781846154829, 9781843832775
Publisher

Boydell Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Relations between the laity and the religious in medieval Durham reveal much about lay religion of the time.

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 andwhat can be discovered about it. She finishes by an examination of local reactions to the Reformation.

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