After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England: 21 (Medieval Church Studies) - Hardcover

9782503534022: After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England: 21 (Medieval Church Studies)

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ISBN 10: 2503534023 ISBN 13: 9782503534022

Publisher: Brepols N.V., 2012

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.

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Review

"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

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