IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1320: Urban Religion in Pre-Reformation England
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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Organiser: | James G. Clark, Department of History, University of Exeter |
Moderator/Chair: | Pamela M. King, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
Paper 1320-a | Civic Religion in Pre-Reformation England: Bristol and London (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Urban, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 1320-b | Rethinking the Monastic Borough in Pre-Reformation England (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Urban, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1320-c | Religion and Provincial Urban Society in the Last Decades of Catholicism (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Education, Religious Life, Social History |
Abstract | The aim of this session is to re-assess the character of religious life in England in a cross-section of urban contexts – city, monastic borough, provincial town – in the century before 1540. There is a general assumption that aspirant urban elites were progressive, perhaps even radical, in religion, and, when it came, welcomed, and were complicit in, the challenge to the old clerical order. The papers presented here, which examine the issue from a variety of urban perspectives, suggest the religious and political dynamics of the period were more complex, and the response to reformation in each case was hardly predictable. |