Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation
Marjo Kaartinen
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Description for Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation
Hardback. Marjo Kaartinen has in this book provided a portrait of the world of late-15th- and early-16th-century monks, friars and nuns, and their monastic vows of obedience, poverty, chastity and stability. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; HRCC2; HRCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Their monastic vows - obedience, poverty, chastity, and stability - still made a difference to them and to the laypeople around them, even when they failed to live up to them. Much of Kaartinen's story is told through the words of the religious themselves, from self-defence to self-criticism, and this makes the reading all the better. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation helps us understand why some forms of Catholic sensibility lasted so long and why Protestant ... Read more
Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Their monastic vows - obedience, poverty, chastity, and stability - still made a difference to them and to the laypeople around them, even when they failed to live up to them. Much of Kaartinen's story is told through the words of the religious themselves, from self-defence to self-criticism, and this makes the reading all the better. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation helps us understand why some forms of Catholic sensibility lasted so long and why Protestant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333969243
SKU
V9780333969243
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99-15
About Marjo Kaartinen
MARJO KAARTINEN is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published widely in Finnish.
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'Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Their monastic vows - obedience, poverty, chastity, and stability - still made a difference to them and to the laypeople around them, even when they failed to live up to them. Much of Kaartinen's story is told through the ... Read more