Selling the church : the English parish in law, commerce, and religion, 1350-1550 /
In the years after the Black Death, English law allowed the leasing of parishes to the laity. However, statutes introduced between 1529 and 1540 reduced such clerical absenteeism. This text argues that this transformation of the English parish was an important part of the English Reformation.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2002]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0807861391 9780807861394 0807827436 9780807827437 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In the years after the Black Death, English law allowed the leasing of parishes to the laity. However, statutes introduced between 1529 and 1540 reduced such clerical absenteeism. This text argues that this transformation of the English parish was an important part of the English Reformation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |