The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559
<p>Chapter 1. The early development of the northern European Observant movement and the apparent lack of demand for Franciscan reform in England. The English Observant foundations as products of the interest of the monarchy based upon European court fashion allied to their own dynastic purpose...
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| description | <p>Chapter 1. The early development of the northern European Observant movement and the apparent lack of demand for Franciscan reform in England. The English Observant foundations as products of the interest of the monarchy based upon European court fashion allied to their own dynastic purposes.</p>
<p>Chapter 2. The standards of Apostolic Poverty which the northern Observants professed and the extent to which the English friars lived up to them. Numbers of friars and patterns of recruitment. The extent of royal patronage and its reflection in the court. The friars' intellectual temper.</p>
<p>Chapter 3. Suspicions of Lutheranism at Greenwich and Cardinal Wolsey’s attempts to visit and reform the Greenwich friary in 1524-5. The flight of William Roy and Jerome Barlow to the Continent. Wolsey’s employment of another Greenwich friar, John West to track down English protestants on the Continent and the danger of divided loyalties inherent in external patronage of individual friars.</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Friar William Peto’s sermon before Henry VIII (Easter 1532) and the friars’ opposition to Henry VIII’s divorce and the break with Rome. Thomas Cromwell’s attempts, with the aid of a disaffected faction among the friars led by John Lawrence, to control their public opposition and his ultimate failure. The suppression of the friaries as the consequence of the friars” refusal to accept the Royal Supremacy over the English Church.</p>
<p>Chapter 5. The aftermath of the suppression. The friars were not so brutally treated as Franciscan tradition has alleged and they continued to cause trouble. Their rôle in the 'Pilgrimage of Grace'. The case of friar John Forest and the compilation of a list of former Observants. The refoundation of the convents at Greenwich and Southampton under Queen Mary.</p>
<p>An index of biographical data is appended.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:707d7b73-3ac8-42e7-821d-7bf6c5834b802022-09-08T09:08:37ZThe Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559Thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:707d7b73-3ac8-42e7-821d-7bf6c5834b80England -- Church historyFranciscans -- England -- HistoryEnglishHyrax Deposit1986Brown, KDDavies, CSL<p>Chapter 1. The early development of the northern European Observant movement and the apparent lack of demand for Franciscan reform in England. The English Observant foundations as products of the interest of the monarchy based upon European court fashion allied to their own dynastic purposes.</p> <p>Chapter 2. The standards of Apostolic Poverty which the northern Observants professed and the extent to which the English friars lived up to them. Numbers of friars and patterns of recruitment. The extent of royal patronage and its reflection in the court. The friars' intellectual temper.</p> <p>Chapter 3. Suspicions of Lutheranism at Greenwich and Cardinal Wolsey’s attempts to visit and reform the Greenwich friary in 1524-5. The flight of William Roy and Jerome Barlow to the Continent. Wolsey’s employment of another Greenwich friar, John West to track down English protestants on the Continent and the danger of divided loyalties inherent in external patronage of individual friars.</p> <p>Chapter 4. Friar William Peto’s sermon before Henry VIII (Easter 1532) and the friars’ opposition to Henry VIII’s divorce and the break with Rome. Thomas Cromwell’s attempts, with the aid of a disaffected faction among the friars led by John Lawrence, to control their public opposition and his ultimate failure. The suppression of the friaries as the consequence of the friars” refusal to accept the Royal Supremacy over the English Church.</p> <p>Chapter 5. The aftermath of the suppression. The friars were not so brutally treated as Franciscan tradition has alleged and they continued to cause trouble. Their rôle in the 'Pilgrimage of Grace'. The case of friar John Forest and the compilation of a list of former Observants. The refoundation of the convents at Greenwich and Southampton under Queen Mary.</p> <p>An index of biographical data is appended.</p> |
| spellingShingle | England -- Church history Franciscans -- England -- History Brown, KD The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559 |
| title | The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559 |
| title_full | The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559 |
| title_fullStr | The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559 |
| title_short | The Franciscan observants in England, 1482-1559 |
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