Church Courts And The People In Seventeenth Century England

Author : Andrew Thomson
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800083130
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England written by Andrew Thomson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock, such as sex before marriage, adultery and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people. The courts of the seventeenth century – when ‘a cyclonic shattering’ produced a ‘great overturning of everything in England’ – have, surprisingly, had to wait until now for scrutiny. Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business and, crucially, the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. While the study will capture the interest of lawyers to clergymen, or from local historians to sociologists, its primary appeal will be to researchers in the field of Church history. For students and researchers of the seventeenth century, it provides a full account of court operations, measuring the extent of control, challenging orthodoxies about excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times and, ultimately, presents powerful evidence for a ‘church in danger’ by the end of the century.

Author : Andrew Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800083141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England written by Andrew Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the regulatory and coercive roles played by church courts in England during the seventeenth century. Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral, or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people, their morals, and religious observance. It imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock focused on such issues as sex before marriage, adultery, and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people. This book offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business, and, crucially, the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. For students and researchers of the seventeenth century, it provides a full account of court operations, measuring the extent of control, challenging orthodoxies about ex-communication, penance, and juries, contextualizing ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times, and, ultimately, presents powerful evidence for a "church in danger" by the end of the century.

Author : R. B. Outhwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521869382
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860 written by R. B. Outhwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

Author : W. M. Jacob
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892957
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lay People and Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century written by W. M. Jacob and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the part that Anglicanism played in the lives of lay people in England and Wales between 1689 and 1750. It is concerned with what they did rather than what they believed, and explores their attitudes to clergy, religious activities, personal morality and charitable giving. Using diaries, letters, account books, newspapers and popular publications and parish and diocesan records, Dr Jacob demonstrates that Anglicanism held the allegiance of a significant proportion of all people. They took the lead in managing the affairs of the parishes, which were the major focus of communal and social life, and supported the spiritual and moral discipline of the church courts. He shows that early eighteenth-century England and Wales remained a largely traditional society and that Methodism emerged from a strong church, which was central to the lives of most people.

Author : Susan Doran
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415205788
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princes, Pastors, and People written by Susan Doran and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book explains the major historical controversies surrounding the period.

Author : Maureen Mulholland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137461
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judicial tribunals in England and Europe, 1200–1700 written by Maureen Mulholland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Chapters consider the judges and juries and the amateur and professional advisers involved in legal processes as well as the offenders brought before the courts, with the reasons for prosecuting them and the defences they put forward. The cases examined range from a fourteenth century cause-célèbre, the attempted trial of Pope Boniface VIII for heresy, to investigations of obscure people for sexual and religious offences in the city states of Geneva and Venice. Technical terms have been cut to a minimum to ensure accessibility and appeal to lawyers, social, political and legal historians, undergraduate and postgraduates as well as general readers interested in the development of the trial through time.

Author : William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022857995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acts of High Commission Court Within the Diocese of Durham written by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the religious and political turmoil of the 17th century. The Acts of High Commission Court within the Diocese of Durham documents the proceedings of the court responsible for enforcing conformity to the Church of England during a time of great upheaval. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars of English history and anyone interested in the religious conflicts that shaped the country. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : K. J. Kesselring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192666959
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700 written by K. J. Kesselring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce Act and its creation of judicial divorces extend the possibility more broadly. Aspects of the history of divorce are well known from studies which typically privilege the records of the church courts that claimed a monopoly on marriage. But why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation, and how did people in failed marriages cope with this absence? One part of the answer to the first question, Kesselring and Stretton argue, and a factor that shaped people's responses to the second, lay in another distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights. The bonds of marriage stayed tightly tied in post-Reformation England in part because marriage was as much about wealth as it was about salvation or sexuality, and English society had deeply invested in a system that subordinated a wife's identity and property to those of the man she married. To understand this dimension of divorce's history, this study looks beyond the church courts to the records of other judicial bodies, the secular courts of common law and equity, to bring fresh perspective to a history that remains relevant today.

Author : Martyn Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society, Religion, and Culture in Seventeenth-century Nottinghamshire written by Martyn Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nottinghamshire's aristocracy and gentry were at the centre of the nation's cultural world. This book contains essays that deal with the range of Nottinghamshire people who contributed to the history and culture of this Midlands county.

Author : Margaret Stieg Dalton
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750193
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laud's Laboratory, the Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Early Seventeenth Century written by Margaret Stieg Dalton and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of English history from a local point of view. The author attempts to show how the Established Church impinged on the lives of ordinary people in the diocese of Bath and Wells in the period preceding the Civil War. Illustrated.