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Saving the Souls of Medieval London

Release on 2016-04-012016-04-01 by Marie-Hélène Rousseau
Saving the Souls of Medieval London

Author: Marie-Hélène Rousseau

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317059370

Category: History

Page: 256

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St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of events of national importance. The cathedral was also a powerhouse of commemoration and intercession, where prayers and requiem masses were offered on a massive scale for the salvation of the living and the dead. This spiritual role of St Paul's Cathedral was carried out essentially by the numerous chantry priests working and living in its precinct. Chantries were pious foundations, through which donors, clerks or lay, male or female, endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls. At St Paul's Cathedral, they were first established in the late twelfth century and, until they were dissolved in 1548, they contributed greatly to the daily life of the cathedral. They enhanced the liturgical services offered by the cathedral, increased the number of the clerical members associated with it, and intensified relations between the cathedral and the city of London. Using the large body of material from the cathedral archives, this book investigates the chantries and their impacts on the life, services and clerical community of the cathedral, from their foundation in the early thirteenth century to the dissolution. It demonstrates the flexibility and adaptability of these pious foundations and the various contributions they made to medieval society; and sheds light on the men who played a role which, until the abolition of the chantries in 1548, was seen to be crucial to the spiritual well-being of medieval London.
History
Saving the Souls of Medieval London
Language: en
Pages: 256

Saving the Souls of Medieval London

Authors: Marie-Hélène Rousseau
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Routledge

St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of events of national importance. The cathedral was also a powerhouse of commemoration and
Saving the Souls of Medieval London
Language: en
Pages: 242

Saving the Souls of Medieval London

Authors: Marie-Helene Rousseau
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London and this investigation of its chantries - pious foundations through which donors endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls - sheds light on the role chantries played in promoting the spiritual well-being
The Routledge History of Medieval Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 370

The Routledge History of Medieval Christianity

Authors: R. N. Swanson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-10 - Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge History of Medieval Christianity explores the role of Christianity in European society from the middle of the eleventh-century until the dawning of the Reformation. Arranged in four thematic sections and comprising 23 originally commissioned chapters plus introductory overviews to each part by the editor, this book provides an
Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540
Language: en
Pages: 336

Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540

Authors: Amy Appleford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-13 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle English "art
Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500
Language: en
Pages: 231

Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500

Authors: Matthew M. Mesley, Louise E. Wilson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-01 - Publisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature

This volume brings together innovative research on miracles in the Christian West 1100-1500, and includes chapters on Anglo-Norman saints’ cults, late medieval Portugal and the legacy of medieval hagiography in the immediate Post-Reformation period. Contributors investigate miracle narratives in conjunction with broader socio-cultural ideals, practices and developments in medieval society.

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