Description
Pastoral Care, the religious mission of the Church to minister to the laity and care for their spiritual welfare, has been a subject of growing interest in medieval studies. This volume breaks new ground with its broad chronological scope (from the early eleventh to the late fifteenth centuries), and its interdisciplinary breadth. New and established scholars from a range of disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history and musicology, bring their specialist perspectives to bear on textual and visual source materials. The varied contributions include discussions of politics, ecclesiology, book history, theology and patronage, forming a series of conversations that reveal both continuities and divergences across time and media, and exemplify the enriching effects of interdisciplinary work upon our understanding of this important topic.
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List of Contributors
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Introduction, by Peter D. Clarke
- Reform and dedication of churches in eleventh-century Exeter
- Old English Confessional Prayers for the Clergy and the Laity
- Making books for pastoral care in late eleventh-century Worcester: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius MS 121 and Hatton MSS 113 + 114
- What to Ask in Confession: A List of Sins from Thirteenth-Century England
- Songs and Sermons in Thirteenth-Century England
- Pastoral Care, Pastoral Cares, Pastoral Carers: Configuring the Cura pastoralis in Pre-Reformation England
- Enforcing Religious Conformity in Late Medieval England:Lateran IV canon 21 and the church courts
- Robert Mannyng and the Imagined Reading Communities for Handlyng Synne
- Unclean priests and the body of Christ: the Elucidarium and pastoral care in fifteenth-century England
- The priest and the patronage of stained glass in late medieval Norfolk
by Erika Corradini
by Catherine Cubitt
by Helen Foxhall Forbes
by Catherine Rider
by Helen Deeming
by Robert Swanson
by Peter D. Clarke
by Ryan Perry
by Sarah James
by Claire Daunton
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