TY - BOOK ID - 10427769 TI - Selling the church : the English parish in law, commerce, and religion, 1350-1550 PY - 2002 SN - 0807827436 0807861391 1469615029 9798890872876 PB - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Benefices, Ecclesiastical. KW - Church and state. KW - Leases. KW - Parishes. KW - Reformation. KW - Church and state KW - Parishes KW - Leases KW - Benefices, Ecclesiastical KW - Reformation KW - History. KW - English Reformation KW - Church benefices KW - Ecclesiastical benefices KW - Expectative graces KW - Graces, Expectative KW - Pluralism (Benefices) KW - Christianity and state KW - Separation of church and state KW - State and church KW - Law and legislation KW - Church property KW - Clergy KW - Commercial law KW - Contracts KW - Conveyancing KW - Land tenure KW - Land titles KW - Possessory interests in land KW - Real property KW - Hire KW - Landlord and tenant KW - Lease or buy decisions KW - Church polity KW - State, The KW - Salaries, etc. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10427769 AB - In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees. But a series of statutes enacted by Henry VIII between 1529 and 1540 effectively reduced such clerical absenteeism. Robert Palmer examines this transformation of the English parish and argues that it was an important part of the English Reformation. ER -