The Social and Regional Origins of the Henrician Episcopacy
Individual Henrician bishops are well known, but our knowledge of the bishops as an ecclesiastical elite is less cultivated. This article addresses the latter deficiency. It provides a new perspective on the Henricians and develops a comparative aspect in order to better contextualize them, and it s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1998
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1998, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 955-973 |
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| Summary: | Individual Henrician bishops are well known, but our knowledge of the bishops as an ecclesiastical elite is less cultivated. This article addresses the latter deficiency. It provides a new perspective on the Henricians and develops a comparative aspect in order to better contextualize them, and it shows them to be a social microcosm of early modern English society. This was done three ways: first, by undertaking a detailed analysis of their social and regional origins; second, by comparing the resulting data with the results of similar examinations of contemporary Italian, Scots, French, and Spanish bishops and with medieval English bishops; and third, the data were compared with statistics regarding the social, economic, and political nation as a whole. The article's findings demonstrate that the elite status achieved by Henricians was not attributable to their ascribed status, and that the Henrician bishops were ideally suited to the society they represented. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2543353 |