The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in medieval life in England The Catholic Church in medieval England was hugely powerful. William I’s rapid building programme of churches ...

Religion was important in England from c ... an individual had to read a verse from Psalm 51 in the Bible. In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read.

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect ... the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

This is explored through concepts of the religious self, holy materiality ... Rosenthal This volume contains collected papers on medieval England’s "names and naming patterns—mostly forenames or ...