| Description |
xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2001. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-208) and index. |
| Contents |
A place apart -- The voices of Morebath -- The pursuit of peace -- The piety of Morebath -- Banishing Saint Sidwell -- Morebath dismantled -- Under tow queens -- Appendix: The warden of Morebath. |
| Summary |
"In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and anti-papal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did the country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry VIII and his children? In this book a reformation historian takes us inside the mind and heart of Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep farming village where 33 families worked the difficult land on the southern edge of Exmoor. ... From 1520 to 1574, ... Morebath's only priest, Sir Christopher Trychay, kept the parish accounts on behalf of the churchwardens. ... Through his eyes we catch a rare glimpse of the life and pre-reformation piety of a sixteenth-century English village. The book also offers a unique window into a rural world in crisis as the reformation progressed. ... Sir Christopher documents the changes in the community reluctantly Protestant, no longer focused on the religious life of the parish church, and increasingly pre-occupied with the secular demands of the Elizabethan state, the equipping of armies and the payment of taxes. Morebath's priest, garrulous to the end of his days, describes a rural world irrevocably altered, and enables us to hear the voices of the villagers after four hundred years of silence."--From cover p. [2]. |
| Awards |
Winner of the Hawthornden prize |
| Subject |
Trychay, Christopher, approximately 1490-1574.
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Reformation -- England -- Morebath.
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Morebath (England) -- Church history -- 16th century.
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Quelle.
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Reformation.
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England (West) -- Aufstand (1549)
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England.
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Morebath.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1520-1574.
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| Subject |
Reformation. (OCoLC)fst01092555
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England -- Morebath.
(OCoLC)fst01293026
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| ISBN |
0300098251 |
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9780300098259 |
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0300091850 |
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9780300091854 |
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