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The Concept of Purgatory in England

February 26, 2012 By Medievalists.net

The notion of purgatory or a third place had great and direct impact on the way people thought because this third place was the immediate destination of the soul after death in the minds of most Christians. People imagined at death that this would be the next form of being.

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Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime

October 24, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime Holstun, Jim (State University of New York, Buffalo) Historical Materialism, 16 (2008) Abstract In 1549, on Mousehold Heath, outside Norwich, the campmen of Kett’s Rebellion created the greatest practical utopian project of Tudor England. Using a commoning rhetoric and practice, they tried to restore the moral […]