Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th-15th Centuries

This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England''s one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from ...