`The Right Ordering of Souls` - The Parish of All Saints` Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation
`The Right Ordering of Souls` - The Parish of All Saints` Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation In the two centuries preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions…
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`The Right Ordering of Souls` - The Parish of All Saints` Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation
In the two centuries preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions combined with constructive effect. Moreover, political conditions, and particularly war with France, persuaded the government to summonits subjects' assistance, including responses encouraged in England's many parishes. Endemic plague prompted a demonstrative piety and, in a world enjoying rising disposable incomes, this linked with current teachings - especially the doctrine of Purgatory - to sustain a remarkable devotional generosity.
Buildings apart, the scarcity of pre-Reformation parish records means, however, that the resonances of this response, and the manner in which parishioners As a result, the wealthier classes invested in and worked for their neighbourhood churches with a degree of largesse - witnessed in parish buildings in many localities - hardly equalled since.