Training in Superstition? Monasteries and Popular Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10085514 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Heale (0000-0003-0697-1126, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 417-439 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046906008955 |
| OpenAlex | W2144042743 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The monasteries of late medieval England are regularly viewed as marginal to the religious lives of the laity, and have been largely omitted from the revisionist depiction of the pre-Reformation Church. Similarly the Dissolution has often been seen primarily as a financial measure, with limited religious motivations or consequences. This article seeks to challenge both these conclusions by drawing attention to the role played by religious houses of all sizes as centres of national and local pilgrimage. It is argued that monasteries exerted a strong and enduring influence over popular piety through their saints' cults, and as a result attracted the hostility of both Erasmian and evangelical reformers in Henrician England. This hostility should be seen as an important ingredient in the Dissolution
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Depiction · English Reformation · Hostility · Literature · Piety · Pilgrimage · Protestantism · Superstition · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |