pre-Reformation

The chief prophet of this newly Christianised architecture was John Ruskin, who championed a return to the gothic vocabulary of the pre-Reformation period.

British architecture: Victorian and Edwardian 2011

English Anglicans have always been careful to insist upon the continuity between their Church and that of their pre-Reformation ancestors.

Letters to the Editor 2009

English Anglicans have always been careful to insist upon the continuity between their Church and that of their pre-Reformation ancestors.

Letters to the Editor 2009

Faith in pre-Reformation England mattered because it was rooted in the very soil of the entire community.

Holy faces from the past Alex Wright 2010

In the novel, Bess remembers the pre-Reformation Church with its saints and feast days and the abbeys with their charity to the poor, and many of her charms and ‘spells’ are Latin prayers.

Archive 2010-05-01 Carla 2010

In the novel, Bess remembers the pre-Reformation Church with its saints and feast days and the abbeys with their charity to the poor, and many of her charms and ‘spells’ are Latin prayers.

Daughters of the Witching Hill, by Mary Sharratt. Book review Carla 2010

The post-1945 Western regime, whose victory over all pre-Reformation or anti-Enlightenment forces appears final and irreversible, is the Whig millennium.

Three Types of Civilized Societies « Isegoria 2008

For emerging now is a new elite unlike any we have seen since the pre-Reformation Catholic Church and before that the Roman Empire: well-educated, well-to-do, well-traveled professionals from many nations who identify more readily with each other than with their countries of birth.

Mayhill Fowler: Hot Dogs and Beans: Obama and the American Dream 2010

He accompanied me to obscure monastic ruins in the German countryside, drove me to see and photograph St. Katharinenthal in Switzerland and Unterlinden in France, was generally a good sport about being dragged into every pre-Reformation church we came across, and waited patiently outside the history museums into which I would disappear for long periods of time to photograph all sorts of things.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Interestingly, with the severe curtailment of the number of people actually reading the bible during the past two generations of social engineering, society has now reverted to the pre-Reformation state of ignorance, with the only adepts left being the druids of the New Humanistic Age, possessing the arcane knowledge and meting it out, as is their wont.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009