Church and Society in England, 1000-1500

Download or read book Church and Society in England, 1000-1500 written by Andrew Brown and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between the church, society and religion across five centuries of change. Andrew Brown examines how the teachings of an increasingly universal Church were applied at a local level and how social change shaped the religious practices of the laity. His approach encompasses the structures of corporate religion, the devotional practices surrounding cults and saints, the effects of literacy (not least on the development of heresy), and how gender, class and political power affected and fragmented the expression of religion.