Church and Chapelry in Sixteenth-Century England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12032908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Kitching (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Pages | 279-290 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0424208400010020 |
| OpenAlex | W2312956972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
The church has always experienced great difficulty in ministering to those dwelling in the remotest parts of its parishes. In this paper I shall look briefly at how the sixteenth century church coped with the problem, and attempt to answer two questions: what facilities for worship were available in outlying districts, and what was the impact of the reformation changes upon them? Chapels abounded in England on the eve of the reformation. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that wherever he lived a parishioner could, without an unreasonably arduous journey, reach a place where mass was sung or said. Quite apart from matters of spiritual and moral discipline, it was important for very practical reasons that he should be able to get quickly to church. Disaster could take hold in villages and townships if the entire population had set off on a long hike to a remote parish church and was unlikely to return for some hours. Moreover, the length of the hike determined the extent of the diversion of labour from other pursuits, notably in the fields at harvest time: indeed, this was to influence government rulings on the number of saints’ days to be observed by the laity
Exaggeration · Government (linguistics · Of Reformation · Political science · Population · Sociology · Theology · Worship · Demography · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |