Going to church in medieval England / Nicholas Orme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orme, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church attendance--England--History--To 1500.

Church attendance.

Church attendance--England--History--16th century.

Public worship--England--History--To 1500.

Public worship.

Public worship--England--History--16th century.

History.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains who went to church, who did not attend, how people behaved there, and how they?not merely the clergy?affected how worship was staged.0 0The book provides an accessible account of what happened in the daily and weekly services, and how churches marked the seasons of Christmas, Lent, Easter, and summer. It describes how they celebrated the great events of life: birth, coming of age, and marriage, and gave comfort in sickness and death. A final chapter covers the English Reformation in the sixteenth century and shows how, alongside its changes, much that went on in parish churches remained as before.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Origins And The Parish

2. The Staff Of The Church

3. The Church Building

4. The Congregation

5. The Day And The Week

6. The Seasons And The Year

7. The Life Cycle

8. The Reformation

9. Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 462-473) and index.

ISBN:

9780300256505

0300256507

OCLC:

1241244224

Publisher Number:

99988112311