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Richard Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges Very Necessary for the Helth of Mannes Soule

Richard Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges Very Necessary for the Helth of Mannes Soule

Alakas, Brandon
Morley, Stephanie

Hardcover

Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral ChristianityBritish History

ISBN10: 1789621097
ISBN13: 9781789621099
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Apr 24 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Richard Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges Very Necessary for the Helth of Mannes Soule is the last printed work written by a brother of the Brigittine community at Syon Abbey. A vocal opponent of Lutheran reforms and Henry VIII's agenda to install himself as the head of the Church of England, Richard Whitford was also Syon's most prolific author. His writing provides pastoral guidance on a range of issues as well as powerful articulations of the value of religious life during the turbulent years preceding the king's break from the Catholic Church. Published in 1541, Dyuers Holy Instrucyons is also the only Syon text printed after the dissolution of the monasteries. This text thus offers a rare perspective on the concerns of those faithful to the old religion from a religious brother who actively participated in the abbey's campaign against Lutheran reformers. As with his previous work, Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons maintains an openly confrontational stance toward radical reformers while offering instruction to readers on issues that would certainly have been topical for faithful who lived after the 1534 Act of Supremacy--issues focussed on patience, avoiding vice, impediments to spiritual perfection, and detraction.

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