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Oxford Church Courts
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Church Courts
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The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860
Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.
Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England
Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock, such as sex before marriage, adultery and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people. The courts of the seventeenth century – when ‘a cyclonic shattering’ produced a ‘great overturning of everything in England’ ...
