Prayers and purgatory: wills on the eve of Reformation, 1500-1538 -- Wills and the church fabric -- Prayers and services -- Poverty and piety -- The old and the new ways: wills and charity, 1539-1580 -- Reform, restoration and survivals -- Foundations old and new -- Death, burial and commemoration -- Poverty and charity -- Piety and the Reformation parish, 1580-1620 -- Reworking the fabric -- Reformed piety -- Charity and social control, 1580-1620 -- Centralizing relief -- Schemes and work -- Social control -- For the most need: comparative views of reform -- The parish and its sources -- The peculiarities of London? -- Protestant and Catholic charity
Notes
"First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing."--Title page verso