Urban society and monastic lordship in Reading, 1350-1600
Chick, Joe2022
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The power of the medieval Church stretched far beyond the religious sphere. Early 20th-century scholarship tended to view towns with monastic lords as highly distinctive, characterised by robust lordship and violent town-abbey relations, and though subsequent studies have done much to modify this view of relationships between towns and their monastic lords, the shadow of this dramatic interpretation still colours our understanding of these situations. Conversely, through a detailed examination of the governmental, guild, parish, and testamentary records of Reading, one of the more populous monastic towns of the period, this book presents a view of town-abbey relations as largely non-violent, thus problematising the more traditional characterisation and interrogating its universality.
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Author:
Chick, Joe, author
Imprint:
Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2022.
Collation:
xiii, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Print on demand edition.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781783277568 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.29304
Local class:
R/D
Language:
English
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BRN:
2576774
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