This significant and innovative collection explores the changing piety of townspeople and villagers before, during, and after the Reformation. Focusing particularly on the county of Kent, it brings together leading and new scholars from England and the Netherlands to present new research on a subject of importance to historians of society and religion in late medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors examine the diverse evidence for transitions in piety and the processes of these changes and incorporate a range of approaches including social, cultural and religious history, literary and manuscript studies, social anthropology and archaeology.

Robert Lutton University of Nottingham, UK. Elisabeth Salter is from the Department of English, University of Wales-Aberystwyth, UK.

Introduction; Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies; 1: Geographies and Materialities of Piety; 2: Martyrs of the Marsh; Institutions as Evidence for Transitions in Piety; 3: The Poor, Hospitals and Charity in Sixteenth-century Canterbury *; 4: 'There hath not bene any gramar scole kepte, preacher maytened or pore people releved, other then ... by the same chauntreye'; 5: The Continuum of Resistance to Tithe, c . 1400-1600 *; 6: A Quantitative Approach to Late Medieval Transformations of Piety in the Low Countries; Reading and Representation; 7: 'Some Tomb for a Remembraunce'; 8: 'The Dayes Moralised'; 9: Writing and Silence; Afterword