Reading and Writing During the Dissolution - Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530-1558

Informationen zum Autor Mary C. Erler is a professor in the English department at Fordham University, New York and is the author of Women, Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 2002). Klappentext This book provides fascinating studies of English religious men and women through their reading and writing during the turbulent period of the Dissolution.This book presents detailed biographical case studies of English religious men and women, and their reading and writing during the turbulent period around the Dissolution of the monasteries, often revealing a surprising interest in reform. It features the remarkable writings of Margaret Vernon, head of four nunneries and personal friend of Thomas Cromwell. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Looking backward?: London's last anchorite, Simon Appulby (¿1537); 2. The Greyfriars Chronicle and the fate of London's Franciscan community; 3. Cromwell's nuns: Katherine Bulkeley, Morpheta Kingsmill, Joan Fane; 4. Cromwell's abbess and friend, Margaret Vernon; 5. 'Refugee Reformation': the effects of exile; 6. Richard Whitford's last work, 1541; Appendices; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Mary C Erler, Mary C. Erler, Mary C. (Fordham University Erler, Erler Mary C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781316601938
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60193-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, RELIGION / Monasticism, Religion: general, Christianity, History of Religion, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Church history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Religious communities and monasticism, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600