Overview

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.

Full Product Details

9782503534022

Table of Contents

Reviews

"""All the chapters assembled here by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh, who contribute impressive essays of their own...are richly informed and dense with useful detail drawn heavily from primary manuscript sources."" --Michael P. Kuczynski, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, January 2015, Vol. 90, No. 1"

All the chapters assembled here by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh, who contribute impressive essays of their own...are richly informed and dense with useful detail drawn heavily from primary manuscript sources. --Michael P. Kuczynski, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, January 2015, Vol. 90, No. 1

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available