reformation- analysis Flashcards
refuting dickens
- He uses witch-beliefs, mysticism and texts in the vernacular as evidence for the decay and backwardness of the late-medieval church.
-purgatory
refuting dickens- witch
were in fact accentuated under a Protestant regime; to suggest mysticism was intrinsic to Protestantism is to make a false conflation between Protestantism and modernity; texts in the vernacular, even bibles, was far from an exclusively protestant phenomenon and actually can be used as evidence for the vitality of the church.
prugatory- refuting dickens
- Equally, argument that the effacement of the doctrine of purgatory was effective in converting people to Protestantism is not convincing: consider how long it took for alleigance to the Chantries to dissapate.
rise in religious printing
- golden legent
prymer
work for householders
gold legend
delightful but still heavily fabulous Golden Legend by Jacob of Voragine was published in 1483 by Caxton who, so far from pruning its luxuriance, added seventy new lives of saints
primer prit
texts are in Latin, though some of them contain in addition certain English devotions.
work for householders- print
1525) was one of the most popular new publications of the decade. 32 Editions. The only hint in Whitford’s book that the orthodox faith faced any challenge was a passing warning that ‘good devout Christians’ should take no notice of heretics who denied the sacrament of penance.
vernacular bible toy equal prot
- Restriction was a uniquely English phenomenon brought in 1408
- Germany twenty complete translations appeared, together with innumerable partial editions, between 1466 and 1522.
- In France the first printed translation dates from 1477.
evidence of flourishing church
lay expendaiture
pratcices
successful catholic institutions
evidence of flourishing church - lay expenditure
parish guilds contg flourish
lt products
high spenidng- Duffy
west country
lt projects- flourishing church
steeple of Louth, begun in 1501 and finished oer a period of 14 years for a cost of over £300.
duffy- flourishing church pre reformation
emphasises the extent of lay energy and expenditure spent on the church – on carvings and paintings for church walls, for screens, bench-ends and windows.
flourishing church - West Country
obsessive devotion to saints was a characteristic of West Country religion. At Ashburton there were regular repairs and re-paintings of images, and an elaborate new rood-loft in 1522-3, an improved St George in 1526-9, a new St Thomas Becket in 1529, and a St Christopher in 1538.
evidence flourishing church - pratcices
survival mystery plays
priest led western rebels 1549 dismissed prayers book as xmas game
wills
moreath
st bary at hilll in london
survival mystery plays- flourishing pre ref church
- Consider the survival of the mystery plays of York, Coventry and Chester which survived the first onset of Protestant belief through their genuine popularity among ordinary townsfolk.
wills- pre ref church
mid-1530s two-thirds of all will-makers made some formal arrangement for prayers or masses after death
mroebath- pre ref church
-. Donations and erections of stained glass window and saints as late as 1537 and 1534. -
-The accession of Mary was pure joy to Trychay.
st Barry at hill- flourishing pre ref church
heart of London:
-1497 the rood-loft was moved, with a general refurbishment of the images;
-In 1515 the women ollected £9. 10s. for a splendid new altar-cloth ‘of white and red cloth of gold’.
-The altar cross and processional crosses were repaired in 1527-8, images were painted, and a goldsmith renewed the gilt on the candlesticks and censers.
evidence flourishing church -s successful catholic institutions
friars
Carthusian order
number applying bsihoprics
guilds
fraris- floruishing Catholic Church
- Modern writers have too little to say of the friars, whose influence was not in fact killed by Chaucer’s irony and who remained both active preachers and frequent legatees in wills during the early years of the sixteenth century.
carthusian order- successful catholic institutions
Mountgrace Priory in York: Here, even as late as 1523, worthy recruits continued to compete for each cell as it became vacant. Since its late foundation in 1396, Mountgrace had built up an annual income of more than £300, and it continued to receive substantial gifts from Lord Clifford and other benefactors almost until the dissolution
bishoprics- successful catholic institutions
hardly bespeaks a universally detested institution: In the diocese of Lincoln at least 700 men were ordained to the priesthood from March 1514 to December 1520 while the number of vacant benefices was c500.
guilds- success catholic institutions
-In the mid-1520s, Our Lady’s Guild had an annual income of over £900 from property and subscriptions.
-They are rising not falling: 1415, about 8 per cent of London testators had made gifts to guilds, but in the 1520s about a quarter did so
protestantism was far from only option
Erasmus catolic reform within
devotion moderna- movement advocated asceticism - reform catholic church from within too
hatred Rome but not uptake prot- Tunstall