Religious life and English culture in the Reformation / Marjo Kaartinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaartinen, Marjo, 1964-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--England.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Reformation.

Monasticism and religious orders--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

History.

Monasticism and religious orders--Middle Ages.

England--Church history--1066-1485.

England.

Church history.

Local Subjects:

England--Church history--1066-1485.

Physical Description:

viii, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Much of Kaartinen's story is told through the words of the religious themselves, from self-defense to self-criticism, and this makes the reading all the better. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation helps us understand why some forms of Catholic sensibility lasted so long and why Protestant reformers drew from the very ideals they wanted to undermine.

Contents:

Part I Obedientia 11

1 Obedience - Renouncing the Will and Pride 13

2 Questioning the Power of the Sovereign 23

3 Monastic Obedience and the Religious Houses 30

Part II Paupertas 47

4 The Problem of Having Nothing and Owning Land 49

5 Crystal Palaces of the Voluntary Poor 63

Part III Castitas 71

6 Mortifying Monastic Flesh 73

7 Wearing the Monk's Hood 84

8 Nourishing the Flesh 90

9 Renouncing Sexuality 97

Part IV Stabilitas 119

10 Stability and Mobility 121

11 Lanterns of Light 126

12 The Duties of Christian Love - Charity in Action 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-203) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0333969243

OCLC:

48557595