Matthew Milner
Ashgate
Hardback
282
Challenging the assumption that medieval Catholicism was overly sensual whilst Protestantism rejected any element of worship appealing to the eye ear or nose this study asks fundamental questions about the relationship between religion and the senses. Divided into two sections the book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world looking at how and to what degree the relationship between religious practices and sensation changed as a result of the coming of Protestantism. By taking this long-term binary approach the study is able to tackle fundamental questions regarding the role of the senses in late-medieval and early modern English Christianity. In so doing it allows us to tease out the tensions and pressures which shaped religious reform in England between 1400 and 1600.
Ashgate
Hardback
282
Challenging the assumption that medieval Catholicism was overly sensual whilst Protestantism rejected any element of worship appealing to the eye ear or nose this study asks fundamental questions about the relationship between religion and the senses. Divided into two sections the book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world looking at how and to what degree the relationship between religious practices and sensation changed as a result of the coming of Protestantism. By taking this long-term binary approach the study is able to tackle fundamental questions regarding the role of the senses in late-medieval and early modern English Christianity. In so doing it allows us to tease out the tensions and pressures which shaped religious reform in England between 1400 and 1600.