Reforming Printing : Syon Abbeys Defence of Orthodoxy 1525-1534

English

Series: Oxford English Monographs

ISBN: 0199653569

EAN: 9780199653560

Category: Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics/Religion / Christian Church / History/History / Europe / Great Britain/Literary Criticism / Books & Reading/Religion / History/

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Release Date: 09/30/2012

Synopsis: This book investigates how Syon Abbey, one of the most ascetic and strict monastic foundations, responded to the religious turbulence of the 1520s and 1530s. It discusses the large corpus of books the brethren had printed during this period in order to augment inferior parochial instruction; bolster orthodox faith; contradict evangelical argument; resist Henry VIIIs desire for ecclesiastical supremacy; and defend the monastic way of life. It argues that the Abbeygrasped the vital importance of reaching out to the laity by writing in the vernacular and publishing cheap volumes of religious instruction, and that this effort far outshone any other conservative body or writer. The book is an exciting contribution to recent debates over the character of late medieval Catholicism, the shifting nature of religious identity and the development of vernacular theology in the sixteenth century. It will be of considerable interest to literary scholars andhistorians of the English Reformation

Reforming Printing : Syon Abbeys Defence of Orthodoxy 1525-1534

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.93 inches

Width: 5.43 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 14.25 oz

Pages: 288