Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: The Diocese of Salisbury 1250-1550

by Andrew D. Brown

Andrew Brown explores lay piety in its contexts of landscape, society, and the church, and examines the many different issues and activities which were of contemporary importance, such as the religious guilds, charity, and heresy. He shows how the regional variations in social and economic structure affected parish life, and concluces with an important assessment of the reception of the Reformation in the diocese. This is the first scholarly study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019820521X
• ISBN13: 9780198205210
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"