Medievalists.net » Edward VI http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Concept of Purgatory in England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/26/the-concept-of-purgatory-in-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/26/the-concept-of-purgatory-in-england/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:32:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29603 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/26/the-concept-of-purgatory-in-england/feed/ 0 Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/24/utopia-pre-empted-kett%e2%80%99s-rebellion-commoning-and-the-hysterical-sublime/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/24/utopia-pre-empted-kett%e2%80%99s-rebellion-commoning-and-the-hysterical-sublime/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:08:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26629 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 […]

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