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Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England: Ecclesiastical justice in peril at Winchester, Worcester and Wells

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    Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England: Ecclesiastical justice in peril at Winchester, Worcester and Wells
  • Author: Thomson, Andrew
  • Subjects: church ; dioceses ; Early Modern England ; history ; justice ; religion ; seventeenth century
  • Description: Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and their religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations concerning such matters as sex before marriage, adultery, bastardy and receiving the sacrament on its flock. It employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enforce these rules in its courts. The courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people but analysis of their performance in the uniquely turbulent seventeenth century has, surprisingly, had to wait until now. Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business and, crucially, the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. While the study will capture the interest of lawyers, clergymen, local historians and even sociologists, its primary appeal will be to specialists in Church history. For students and researchers of the seventeenth century, it provides a full account of church court operations. It measures the extent of their control, challenging orthodoxies about excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times and, ultimately, presenting powerful evidence for a ‘church in danger’ by the end of the century.
  • Publisher: UCL Press
  • Creation Date: 2022
  • Language: English
  • Source: UCL Discovery
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