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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Seval English Church scent decades has unsettled orthodoxies on the late medi- eval English Church so much so that many now agree that Catholicism flour- ished in this country in the two centuries prior to the Reformation. Indeed the premise underpinning the present study is that religion in the later fourteenth fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries benefited from an institutional vitality and popular commitment rarely if ever equalled since. To take one indicator in every locality of England many parish churches were either lavishly rebuilt or substan- tially enlarged in the two centuries that followed the Black Death a period when a much reduced population remained stubbornly low. Moreover many of the Church’s longest functioning and most prestigious regular corporations namely its monasteries and hospitals revived and prospered despite enduring calamitous manpower losses with the onset of plague. The same applies to England’s secular or collegiate corporations which if anything began to enjoy a new lease of life from the later fourteenth century. (MP)