The devil gets into the belfry under the parson's skirts: vox populi and early modern religion
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Paper/Presentation Title | The devil gets into the belfry under the parson's skirts: vox populi and early modern religion |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Colclough, Gillian |
Editors | Harmes, Marcus, Henderson, Lindsay J. and Colclough, Gillian |
Journal or Proceedings Title | From Augustine to Anglicanism: the Anglican Church in Australia and beyond: Proceedings of the Conference |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Toowoomba, Australia |
ISBN | 9780646528113 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.anglicans-in-australia-and-beyond.org |
Conference/Event | From Augustine to Anglicanism: The Anglican Church in Australia and Beyond (2010) |
Event Details | From Augustine to Anglicanism: The Anglican Church in Australia and Beyond (2010) Event Date 12 to end of 14 Feb 2010 Event Location Brisbane, Australia |
Abstract | Popular wisdom in the form of proverbs and adages is a feature of most societies. In European and American contexts, proverbs have been both respected and ridiculed as vox populi, the 'voice of the people'. However, from about the fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, proverbs were viewed and employed at all social levels as containing simple truths because they emanated from the unspoiled peasantry. Consequently, as an oral cultural form transmitted upwards through society, proverbs can show socio-political or religious ideas and developments at many levels of everyday life, often cynically, sometimes with anger, and generally without the risk of litigation. Using Maurice Palmer Tilley's collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century English proverbs, this paper examines attitudes to the Church of England, the Catholic Church and the clergy. Bearing in mind the historiographical problems of potentially abstract oral sources recorded and often edited by external elites, the paper argues nonetheless that proverbs provide valuable insights into popular opinion, in this case, in the challenges and changes of Early Modern Christianity. |
Keywords | Church of England; clergy; early modern christianity |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500207. History of ideas |
430304. British history | |
500405. Religion, society and culture | |
470299. Cultural studies not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Copyright, Contributors 2010 |
Byline Affiliations | Learning and Teaching Support Unit |
University of Queensland | |
Faculty of Arts | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Book Title | From Augustine to Anglicanism: The Anglican Church in Australia and Beyond |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0vyw/the-devil-gets-into-the-belfry-under-the-parson-s-skirts-vox-populi-and-early-modern-religion
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