Combining Microhistorical and Field Theory Approaches: Lay Popular Religious Practice in England during the Long Fifteenth Century
The purpose of this article is to explore the frictions and potentials endemic in combining microhistorical and field theory approaches, using popular religion in England in the long fifteenth century as an example. In two case studies, concerning basic catechetical texts and the last wills and test...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 99, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 440-464 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Catechism
/ Will
/ Folk religion
/ History 1350-1550
/ Microhistory (Subject)
/ Social environment
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles RF Christian education; catechetics XA Law |
Further subjects: | B
last will and testament
B microhistory B Laity B England B Catechisms B Manuscript studies B lay devotion B Clergy |
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Summary: | The purpose of this article is to explore the frictions and potentials endemic in combining microhistorical and field theory approaches, using popular religion in England in the long fifteenth century as an example. In two case studies, concerning basic catechetical texts and the last wills and testaments created by a wide spectrum of the population, the article analyzes how micro- and macro-historical investigation can be tied together. Crucially, micro examples do not simply illustrate but rather add to our knowledge of the general picture. Where micro examples offer a corrective to a general picture there is potential for friction. However, the article also proposes that it is valuable to use Bourdieusian concepts of the cultural field to inventorize the micro evidence in the process of understanding historical situations and transitions more broadly. |
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ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09903007 |