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The Late Medieval English Church
G.W. Bernard
其他書名
Vitality and Vulnerability Beford the Break with Rome
出版Yale University Press, 2012-06-26
主題History / Europe / Medieval
ISBN97803001825830300182589
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ksmwhfTAngIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian George Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses which reforming bishops worked to overcome.Bernard emphasises royal control over the church. He examines the challenges facing bishops and clergy, and assesses the depth of lay knowledge and understanding of the teachings of the church, highlighting the practice of pilgrimage. He reconsiders anti-clerical sentiment and the extent and significance of heresy. He shows that the Reformation was not inevitable: the late medieval church was much too full of vitality. But Bernard also argues that alongside that vitality, and often closely linked to it, were vulnerabilities that made the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries possible. The result is a thought-provoking study of a church and society in transformation.