After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England

Description

England’s religious life in the fifteenth century is worthy of sustained, nuanced, and meticulous analysis. This book offers a portrait of late medieval English religious theory and praxis that complicates any attempt to present the period as either quivering in the post-traumatic stress of Lollardy, or basking in the autumn sunshine of an uncritical and self-satisfied hierarchy’s failure to engage with undoubted European and domestic crises in ecclesiology, pastoral theology, anti-clericalism, and lay spiritual emancipation. After Arundel means not just because of or despite Archbishop Arundel (and the repressive legislation associated with him), for it also asks what models and taxonomies will be needed to move beyond Arundel as a fixed star in the firmament of (especially literary) scholarship in the period. It aims to supply the next phase of scholarly exploration of this still often dark continent of religious attitudes and writing with new tools and technical vocabularies, as well as to suggest new directions of travel. Front Matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “Foreword”, “List of Abbreviations”, “List of Contributors”), p. i Free Access Chichele’s Church: Vernacular Theology in England after Thomas Arundel, p. 3 Vincent Gillespie https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2001 After Arundel: The Closing or the Opening of the English Mind?, p. 43 Jeremy Catto https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2002 Censorship or Cultural Change? Reformation and Renaissance in the Spirituality of Late Medieval England, p. 55 Michael G. Sargent https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2003 Vernacular Theology / Theological Vernacular: A Game of Two Halves?, p. 73 Ian Johnson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2004 Orthodoxy’s Image Trouble: Images in and after Arundel’s Constitutions, p. 91 James Simpson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2005 Censorship and Cultural Continuity: Love’s Mirror, the Pore Caitif, and Religious Experience before and after Arundel, p. 115 Christopher G. Bradley https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2006 Voice after Arundel, p. 133 David Lawton https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2007 Conciliarism and Heresy in England, p. 155 Alexander Russell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2008 ‘Let Them Praise Him in Church’: Orthodox Reform at Salisbury Cathedral in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, p. 167 David Lepine https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2009 London after Arundel: Learned Rectors and the Strategies of Orthodox Reform, p. 187 Sheila Lindenbaum https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2010 Common Libraries in Fifteenth-Century England: An Episcopal Benefaction, p. 209 James Willoughby https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2011 Religion, Humanism, and Humanity: Chaundler’s Dialogues and the Winchester Secretum, p. 225 Daniel Wakelin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2012 Staging Advice in Oxford, New College, MS 288: On Thomas Chaundler and Thomas Bekynton, p. 245 Andrew Cole https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2013 Reconstructing the Mixed Life in Reginald Pecock’s Reule of Crysten Religioun, p. 267 Allan F. Westphall https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2014 Vernacular Authority and the Rhetoric of Sciences in Pecock’s The Folewer to the Donet and in The Court of Sapience, p. 285 Tamás Karáth https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2015 ‘This holy tyme’: Present Sense in the Digby Lyrics, p. 307 Helen Barr https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2016 English Devotions for a Noble Household: The Long Passion in Audelay’s Counsel of Conscience, p. 325 Susanna Fein https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2017 Lydgate’s Retraction and ‘his resorte to his religyoun’, p. 343 W. H. E. Sweet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2018 Devotional Cosmopolitanism in Fifteenth-Century England, p. 363 Stephen Kelly, Ryan Perry https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2019 Canons and Catechisms: The Austin Canons of South-East England and Sacerdos parochialis, p. 381 Niamh Pattwell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2020 ‘Þat þine opun dedis be a trewe book’: Reading around Arundel’s Constitutions, p. 395 Amanda Moss https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2021 Gender, Confession, and Authority: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 in the Fifteenth Century, p. 415 Jennifer N. Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2022 Dressing up a ‘galaunt’: Traditional Piety and Fashionable Politics in Peter Idley’s ‘translacions’ of Mannyng and Lydgate, p. 429 Matthew Giancarlo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2023 Richard Methley and the Translation of Vernacular Religious Writing into Latin, p. 449 Laura Saetveit Miles https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2024 Saints’ Lives and the Literary after Arundel, p. 469 Catherine Sanok https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2025 Hagiography after Arundel: Expounding the Trinity, p. 487 Karen A. Winstead https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2026 Proliferation and Purification: The Use of Books for Nuns after Arundel, p. 503 C. Annette Grisé https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2027 After Arundel but before Luther: The First Half-Century of Print, p. 523 Susan Powell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2028 Wyclif, Arundel, and the Long Fifteenth Century, p. 545 Kantik Ghosh https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2029 ‘A clerke schulde have it of kinde for to kepe counsell’, p. 563 Nicholas Watson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.4.2030 Back Matter (“Bibliography”, “Index Nominum”, “Index of Manuscripts”), p. 591