Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 1066-1272 by Henry ... - 9781138835146

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Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 1066-1272Author(s): Henry Mayr-Harting\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138835146, 978-1138835146\nSynopsis\nThe period from 1066 to 1272, from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry III, was one of enormous political change in England and of innovation in the Church as a whole. Religion, Politics and Society [tel] charts the many ways in which a constantly changing religious culture impacted on a social and political system which was itself dominated by clerics, from the parish to the kingdom.\n\nExamining the various ways in which churchmen saw their relation to secular power, Henry Mayr-Harting introduces many of the great personalities of the time, such as Thomas Becket and Robert Grosseteste. At the same time he shows how religion itself changed over the course of two centuries, in response to changing social conditions ? how rising population fuelled the economic.