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Catholic England : faith, religion, and observance before Reformation / translated and annotated by R.N. Swanson.

Title
Catholic England : faith, religion, and observance before Reformation / translated and annotated by R.N. Swanson.
Publication
Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors
Swanson, R. N. (Robert Norman)
Description
xvi, 299 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Manchester medieval sources series
Uniform Title
Manchester medieval sources series.
Subject
  • Catholic Church > England > History
  • Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • England > Church history > 1066-1485
Genre/Form
  • Church history
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-293) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: In search of pre-Reformation English spirituality -- Part 1: Theory. I. The Bible -- II. Disseminating the faith. A. Instruction in the faith ; B. Sermons -- III. The mass -- IV. Designs for living and dying -- Part 2: Practice. V. Parish celebrations -- VI. Private religion -- VII. Saints, shrines, miracles, and pilgrimage. A. Shrines and offerings by pilgrims ; B. Miracles -- VIII. Security for the living. A. Indulgences ; B. Guilds and fraternities -- IX. Security for the dead. A. Obits and anniversaries ; B. Chantries and almshouses -- X. Distributions at death : wills -- XI. Complaint and opposition. A. Anticlericalism? ; B. Heresy and lollardy.
ISBN
  • 0719034647
  • 0719034655 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^92029427^
OCLC
26504693
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library