Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C. 1240-1540 Hardcover F.

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Book Title
Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C. 1240-1540 Hardcover F.
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9780521475020
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521475023
ISBN-13
9780521475020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1052046

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
324 Pages
Publication Name
Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C. 1240-1540
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Subject
Monasticism, Christianity / History, Christian Church / History, Europe / Great Britain / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, History
Author
F. Donald. Logan
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
95-031970
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"...Logan has asked a modest but interesting and revealing question of the records of ecclesiastical history and, after exhaustive research, offers up a very thorough answer....Many compelling human vignettes are offered in this highly readable book." Choice, "...it is a great relief and pleasure to review Professor Logan's balanced and sympathetic study of runaway religious in medieval England. Dr. Logan's book is a very welcome addition to our knowledge and his researches do serve to bring a lot of light to what has been a subject full of individual anecdotes and badly in need of a balanced overall survey. His careful, judicial and well written account of his findings has produced a book which anyone studying medieval relgious life should read." Richard Copsey, The Medieval Review, ...this study is to be most warmly welcomed as the first authoritative account of a much-neglected field; its findings must now be taken into account by all scholars of monastic history.|9780521475020|, "...the collection and organization of the hard data found in the appendix will provide a good base for the thoughtful reader's interpretive powers." Jo Ann McNamara, Albion, "...the collection and organization of the hard data found in the apprendix will provide a good base for the thoughtful reader's interpretive powers." Albion, "Logan has produced a welcome, one might almost say definitive study of a neglected aspect of English monastic history. There are five appendixes, a select bibliography, and indexes could have been fuller and subjects. The subject index could have been fuller and better arranged, for the book contains much incidental detail of interest to a wider audience." F.G. Cowley, American Historical Review
Series Volume Number
Series Number 32
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
255/.00942
Table Of Content
Preface; Introduction; 1. A question of terms; 2. Legal alternatives; 3. Two questions: how many? and why?; 4. The secular arm; 5. Return and reconciliation; 6. The 1530s; Appendices; Bibliography.
Synopsis
The first study of the lives of the 'runaway religious', the monks, canons and friars who fled their monasteries and returned to a life in the world only to be pursued by the Church authorities., Runaway religious were monks, canons and friars who had taken vows of religion and who, with benefit of neither permission nor dispensation and for myriad reasons, fled their monasteries and returned to a life in the world, usually replacing the religious habit with lay clothes. Not only the normal tugs of the world drew them away: other less obvious yet equally human motives, such as boredom, led to a return to the world. The church pursued them with her severest penalty, excommunication, in the express hope that penalties would lead to the return of the straying sheep. This book is the first to tell their story., The 'runaway religious' were monks, canons and friars who had taken vows of religion and who, with benefit of neither permission nor dispensation, fled their monasteries and returned to a life in the world, usually replacing the religious habit with lay clothes. No legal exit for the discontented was permitted - religious vows were like marriage vows in this respect - until the financial crisis caused by the Great Schism created a market in dispensations for priests in religious orders to leave, take benefices, and live as secular priests. The church therefore pursued runaways with her severest penalty, excommunication, in the express hope that penalties would lead to the return of the straying sheep. Once back, whether by free choice or by force, the runaway was received not with a feast for a prodigal but, in a rite of stark severity, with the imposition of penalties deemed suitable for a sinner.
LC Classification Number
BX2592 .L64 1996

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