Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . Sparing nor proud. f Rebuke. X Scrupulous 552 PARISH PRIESTS AXD THEIR Kings College Chapel, CambriJge, 15th century. RELIGIOUS OPINIONS, 553 The fifteenth century is generally believed tohave been especially religiously dead. There aretwo ways of looking at it; we may talk, not with-out some reason, of the stagnation of the fag end ofmediaevalism, of the wealth and worldliness andneglect of the prelates, of the superstition of thepeople, and so forth ; but one fact, which still existsall over the country, is enough by it
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . Sparing nor proud. f Rebuke. X Scrupulous 552 PARISH PRIESTS AXD THEIR Kings College Chapel, CambriJge, 15th century. RELIGIOUS OPINIONS, 553 The fifteenth century is generally believed tohave been especially religiously dead. There aretwo ways of looking at it; we may talk, not with-out some reason, of the stagnation of the fag end ofmediaevalism, of the wealth and worldliness andneglect of the prelates, of the superstition of thepeople, and so forth ; but one fact, which still existsall over the country, is enough by itself to workinstant conviction that there is another side to thequestion—the church building of the century. Ourforefathers in the fifteenth century had enough of lifeand originality to develop here in England a newvariety of Gothic art distinctly different from thedevelopment of the art on the Continent of Europe ;a reaction against the luxuriant beauty of theDecorated ; with a masculine strength in its lines, anda practical modification of plan and elevation so asto obtain spacious, lofty interiors. Take its grandtowers as a measure
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