Pragmatic Utopias
Subtitle: Ideals and Communities, 12001630
Contributors: Rosemary Horrox (Editor); Sarah Rees Jones (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521650601
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Ecclesiology & Church government; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History - General History; England; History: World; British Isles; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain; Sociology, Christian--England--History; Church history; Christian sociology; History
First sentence: Langland's glowing recommendation of the life of the cloister - 'For yf hevene be on this erthe, or eny ese to the soule, / Hit is in cloystre or in scole, by many skilles I fynde' (Piers Plowman, C.V.I 52-3) - has often been taken to be in need of explanation.