Prelude to the Reformation – R.S. Arrowsmith
Today’s free book is Richard S. Arrowsmith’s study of the background to the European Reformation from the time of John Wycliffe onwards. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain work available for digitisation.
Richard Staines Arrowsmith [1873-1942], The Prelude to the Reformation. A Study of English Church Life from the Age of Wycliffe to the Breach with Rome. Studies in Church History. London: SPCK, 1923. Hbk. pp.226. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Later Medieval Bishop
- The Later Medieval Cathedral and Collegiate Clergy
- Some Types of the Later Medieval Parish Clergy
- Growing Tension with Rome
- Powers and Privileges of the Later Medieval Church
- Colet and the New Movement for Educational Reform
- Sidelights, Mainly from the Visitation Documents., Upon Certain of the ENglish Religious Houses after the Black Death
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Episcopal Incomes from the “Valor Ecclesiasticus”
- Index