Midterm in class this Tuesday, October 27 you will not need a blue book
Late Medieval Religion Ely CathedralLady Chapel
Saint Agatha, Easbyinterior
Saint Agatha, Easby, Labors of the Months
Ruins of the Abbey at Easby
Christendom Archbishoprics (provinces) of Canterbury and York -21 dioceses (bishops) -over 9,000 parishes -750 monasteries/convents -60,000 clergy (4% of pop.; 8% of male pop.) Benefit of clergy -ecclesiastical courts Tithes (10% of income)
Central doctrine: Christ’s sacrifice made human salvation possible through divine grace; grace is transmitted through the sacraments Sacraments: 1.Baptism (infant) 2.Mass/Eucharist -transubstantiation 3.Reconciliation (confession and penance) -purgatory 4.Confirmation 5.Marriage 6.Ordination (clergy only) 7.Extreme Unction/Last Rites Celebration of the Mass
Saint Michaels, Doddiscombleigh Grace issuing from Christ’s wounds and into the sacraments
Rood Screen, St Birinus, Dorchester on Thames
Cult of the Saints Relics (physical remains) Pilgrimage Canterbury -Saint Thomas Becket Walsingham -Virgin Mary Durham -Saint Cuthbert Exeter -Saint Sidwell Restored shrine of Saint Thomas Cantilupe Hereford Cathedral
Criticism Erasmus of Rotterdam (d. 1536) Abbey of Bury Saint Edmunds Syncretism Wills - Robert Jannys Parish account books Religious guilds Artist rendering of the original Abbey of Bury St. Edmund
Cardinal Wolsey -Lord Chancellor pluralism Anticlericalism Sacerdotal Cardinal Wolsey
Reformers -John Collett, dean of St. Paul -convocation -Thomas More -Bishop John Fisher -Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall Lollards -heretics -John Wycliffe (d. 1384)>Jan Hus (d. 1415)>Martin Luther (d. 1546) Evangelicals -Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) -Thomas Bilney (d. 1531) -William Tyndale (d. 1536) Thomas Cranmer
Henry VIII -Defense of the Seven Sacraments (Assertio Septum Sacramentorum), Defender of the Faith (Fidei defensor), Catherine of Aragon (d. 1536) Pope Clement VII ( ) Emperor Charles V (d. 1556) -Catherine’s nephew Catherine of Aragon