Slanderous words were often couched in sexual terms because sexual abuse was the language most likely to cause offence.22 A dispute over church seating in an Oxford church led to a freeman's wife, Barbara Nicholles, jostling with ...
Church Courts and the People During the English Reformation, 1520-1570
"Selections from church court and other records relating to the correction of moral offences in England, Scotland, and New England, 1300-1800"--T.p.
London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Reformation
Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business and, crucially, the scale of ...
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Dr Marchant has produced a systematic account of Church courts as they were re-moulded to serve the Protestant Church in England after the Elizabethan Settlement, and at a time when they were still one of the principal responsibilities of ...
In his work on England, Robert N. Swanson subverts the assumption that late medieval complaints against the clergy should be understood properly as a new, destructive “anti-clericalism.”6 The clergy was always in need of reform in all ...