The Great Church of the Holy Trinity Long Melford
Author: Edmund Blunden
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13:
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A Little History Of The English Country Church
Author: Roy Strong
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1448138795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish church From the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism; from the cataclysm of the Reformation, to the gentrified cleric we meet in Jane Austen novels, Roy Strong takes us on a journey - historical, social and spiritual - to explore what men and women experienced through the age when they went to church on Sunday. ‘Anyone with the slightest interest in the English parish church, of its life today, or its history will be intrigued, informed and enchanted by this lucid, and occasionally provocative, account’ Country Life
The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reformation
Author: Steven M. Studebaker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-04-16
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1725287099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Luther's nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg was a pivotal moment in the birth of what would become known as the Reformation. More than five hundred years later, historians and theologians continue to discuss the impact of these events and their ongoing relevance for the church today. The collection of essays contained in this volume not only engages the history and theology of this sixteenth-century movement, but also focuses on how the message and praxis of the Protestant reformers can be translated into a post-Christendom West.
Parish Church Treasures
Author: John Goodall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1472917642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England's remarkable Parish Churches, 'the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory'. Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the naïve, from prehistory to the present day, to form an unsung national museum which presents its contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal displays. Because church treasures usually remain in the buildings they were created for, properly interpreted they tell from thousands of local perspectives the history of the nation, its people and their changing religious observance. John Goodall's weekly series in Country Life has celebrated particular objects in or around churches that are of outstanding artistic, social or historical importance, to underline both the intrinsic interest of parish churches and the insights that they and their contents offer into English history of every period. Parish Church Treasures incorporates and significantly expands this material to tell afresh the remarkable history of the parish church. It celebrates the special character of churches as places to visit whilst providing an authoritative and up-to-date history at a time when the use and upkeep of these buildings and the care of their contents is highly contentious.
The Theater of Devotion
Author: Gail McMurray Gibson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780226291024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this interdisciplinary study of drama, arts, and spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a provocative reappraisal of fifteenth-century English theater through a detailed portrait of the flourishing cultures of Suffolk and Norfolk. By emphasizing the importance of the Incarnation of Christ as a model and justification for late medieval drama and art, Gibson challenges currently held views of the secularization of late medieval culture.
Renovating the Sacred
Author: Irena Tina Marie Larking
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-05-15
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1527551415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English Reformation was no bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky. Nor was it an event that was inevitable, smooth, or predictable. Rather, it was a process that had its turbulent beginnings in the late medieval period and extended through until the Restoration. This book places the emphasis not just on law makers or the major players, but also, and more importantly, on those individuals and parish communities that lived through the twists and turns of reform. It explores the unpredictable process of the English Reformation through the fabric, rituals and spaces of the parish church in the Diocese of Norwich c. 1450–1662, as recorded, through the churchwardens’ accounts and the material remains of the late medieval and early modern periods. It is through the uses and abuses of the objects, rituals, spaces of the parish church that the English Reformation became a reality in the lives of these faith communities that experienced it.
