By Daniel C. Beaver

Many historians have tried to appreciate the violent non secular conflicts of the 17th century from viewpoints ruled via recommendations of sophistication, gender, and demography. yet few reviews have explored the cultural procedure wherein spiritual symbolism created social team spirit and political allegiance. This e-book examines spiritual clash within the parish groups of early smooth England utilizing an interdisciplinary process that comes with most of these views.

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27 Less than a mile south of this site at the Lower Lode, a second ferry joined Tewkesbury to the valuable tracts of woodland in the parish of Forthampton. Before the dissolution of the monastery, the monks of Tewkesbury Abbey had owned both ferries, which formed the links to abbey estates on the western banks of the Severn. Forthampton contained the most luxuriant woodlands in the northern vale. 29 These woodlands supported poor laborers as well as the rich abbey and its lay successors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

67 The method used to reconstruct parish communities in the Vale of Gloucester draws on the ideas and techniques of social and cultural anthropology as a complement to the rational schemes created to understand intellectual aspects of religion. An anthropological approach differs from other approaches in its attention to the symbolic significance of social relations for the participants. An emphasis on the value of symbols and ritual in social life has established the creation of meaning in human society as the distinctive concern of anthropology.

91 But Higgins’ violent response to the violation of the boundary indicates the depth of the claim to property underlying the formal exclusion from ownership. 92 The right of ultimate control was keenly felt and defended. 93 Elizabeth Eaton claimed to have received “a deed of gift or executorship,” conveying “one Pitt’s house in Tewkesbury,” from Greenwood’s deceased husband before his marriage. ”94 Age did not diminish a wife’s customary claim to her husband’s estate. Isabell Buckle was in her eighties “at least” when she became executrix of her husband’s will.

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