| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 232 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map, facsimile |
| Contents |
A place apart -- The voices of Morebath -- The pursuit of peace -- The piety of Morebath -- Banishing Saint Sidwell -- Morebath dismantled -- Under two queens -- Appendix: The wardens 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 country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry VIII and his three children?" "In this book a reformation historian takes us inside the mind and heart of Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep farming village where thirty-three families worked the difficult land on the southern edge of Exmoor. The bulk of Morebath's conventional archives have long since vanished. But from 1520 to 1574, through nearly all the drama of the English Reformation, Morebath's only priest, Sir Christopher Trychay, kept the parish accounts on behalf of the churchwardens. Opinionated, eccentric, and talkative, Sir Christopher filled these vivid scripts for parish meetings with the names and doings of his parishioners. Through his eyes we catch a rare glimpse of the life and pre-reformation piety of a sixteenth-century English village."-- publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (nominated), 2002 |
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Hawthornden Prize (won), 2002 |
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British Academy Book Prize (nominated), 2002 |
| Subject |
Trychay, Christopher, approximately 1490-1574.
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| SUBJECT |
Trychay, Christopher, approximately 1490-1574 fast |
| Subject |
Reformation -- England -- Morebath
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Reformation
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Reformatie.
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Opstanden.
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| SUBJECT |
Morebath (England) -- Church history -- 16th century
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| Subject |
England -- Morebath
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001001477 |
| ISBN |
9780300175028 |
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0300175027 |
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9780300091854 |
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0300091850 |
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