Kent Heresy Proceedings 1511-12..
Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt, with Society's device on front boards, in laminated coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Mint condition. Inset: Review from the Bibliothèque de L'École des Chartres, 137, 1999.
£15.00
Publisher
Kent Archaeological Society.,
Place
Maidstone
Date
1997
Synopsis
(kent records. volume xxvi).
Item Description
8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xxvi + 129 pp. + [1]. Series title. Text in Latin and English.
Illustrations
Illustrated by frontispiece and map in text.
Notes
Thirty two extracts from the register of Archbishop Warham of Canterbury, containing the proceedings of fifty three defendants accused of the practice of Lollardy. The documents record the abjurations of those tried and the penances and punishments imposed upon them. The five who refused to abjure were handed over to the secular arm and could in theory have been burnt as obdurate heretics. An informative and evocative account of religious dissent in England on the eve of the Reformation, recording the beliefs of the defendants in their own words, the abjuration sections being in the vernacular.
[Stock No. 21202]
Subjects
16th Century • Church • History • Kent