DOCSLIB.ORG

Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England By Cutts, Edward L. English A Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book This book is indexed by ISYS Web Indexing system to allow the reader find any word or number within the document. PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. [Illustration: FROM THE XV. CENT. MS., EGERTON 2019, f. 142.] PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND. BY THE REV. EDWARD L. CUTTS, D.D., AUTHOR OF “TURNING POINTS OF ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY,” “A DICTIONARY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,” “A HANDY BOOK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,” ETC. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OE THE TRACT COMMITTEE. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C. 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C. BRIGHTON: 129, NORTH STREET. NEW YORK: E & J. B.YOUNG AND CO. 1898. PREFACE. A great mass of material has of late years been brought within reach of the student, bearing upon the history of the religious life and customs of the English people during the period from their conversion, in the sixth and seventh centuries, down to the Reformation of the Church of England in the sixteenth century; but this material is still to be found only in great libraries, and is therefore hardly within reach of the general reader. The following chapters contain the results of some study of the subject among the treasures of the library of the British Museum; much of those results, it is believed, will be new, and all, it is hoped, useful, to the large number of general readers who happily, in these days, take an intelligent interest in English Church history. The book might have been made shorter and lighter by giving fewer extracts from the original documents; but much of the history is new, and it seemed desirable to support it by sufficient evidence. The extracts have been, as far as possible, so chosen that each shall give some additional incidental touch to the filling up of the general picture. The photographic reproductions of illuminations from MSS. of various dates, illustrating ecclesiastical ceremonies and clerical costumes, are enough in themselves to give a certain value to the book which contains and describes them. The writer is bound to make grateful acknowledgment of his obligations to the Bishop of Oxford, who, amidst his incessant occupations, was so kind to an old friend as to read through the rough proof of the book, pointing out some corrigenda, making some suggestions, and indicating some additional sources of information; all which, while it leaves the book the better for what the bishop has done for it, does not make him responsible for its remaining imperfections. The writer has also to express his thanks to the Rev. Professor Skeat, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge, and to the Rev. Dr. Cunningham, formerly Professor of Economic Science, K.C.L., for their kind replies to inquiries on matters on which they are Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 1 authorities; and to some others who kindly looked over portions of the book dealing with matters of which they have special knowledge. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. OUR HEATHEN FOREFATHERS. The land only partially reclaimed, 1--The Anglo-Saxon conquest, 2--Civil constitution, 4--Religion, 7--Structural temples, 8--Priests, 11. CHAPTER II. THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH. Conversion of the heptarchic kingdoms, 14--Its method, 16--Illustrations from the history of Jutland, Norway, etc., 17--The cathedral centres, 20--Details of mission work, 21--Mission stations, 24. CHAPTER III. THE MONASTIC PHASE OF THE CHURCH. Multiplication of monasteries, 28: in Kent, 29; Northumbria, 29; East Anglia, 31; Wessex, 31; Mercia, 31--List of other Saxon monasteries, 33--Constitution of the religious houses, 35--Their destruction by the Danes, 37--Rebuilding in the reigns of Edgar and Canute, 37. CHAPTER IV. DIOCESAN AND PAROCHIAL ORGANIZATION. Character of the new converts, 38--Coming of Archbishop Theodore, 40--Union of the Heptarchic Churches, 41--Subdivision of dioceses, 41--Introduction of the parochial system, 43--Northumbria made a second province, 49--Multiplication of parishes, 50--Different classes of churches, 53--Number of parishes at the Norman Conquest, 54. CHAPTER V. THE SAXON CLERGY. Laws of the heptarchic kingdoms: of Ethelbert, 57; of Ine, 57; of Wihtred, 57--Council of Clovesho (747), 60--Laws of Alfred, 65; of Athelstan, 66--Canons of Edgar, 66--Laws of Ethelred, 72--Canons of Elfric, 74--Privilege of sanctuary, 75--Tithe and other payments, 78--Observance of Sunday and holy days, 79--Slavery, 81--Manumission, 81. CHAPTER VI. THE NORMAN CONQUEST. Foreign bishops and abbots introduced, 84--Parochial clergy undisturbed, 85--Papal supremacy, 85--Separation of civil and ecclesiastical Courts, 86--Norman cathedrals and churches, 87--Revival of monasticism, 90--Appropriation of parochial benefices, 91. CHAPTER VII. THE FOUNDATION OF VICARAGES. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 2 Mode of appropriation of parishes, 95--Evil results, 97--Ordination of vicarages, 98--Its conditions, 99--Not always fulfilled, 108--Abuses, 109. CHAPTER VIII. PAROCHIAL CHAPELS. Chapels-of-ease for hamlets, 110--Some of them elevated into churches, 110--Rights of mother churches safeguarded, 121--Free chapels, 123. CHAPTER IX. THE PARISH PRIEST--HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION. Saxon clergy largely taken from the higher classes, 127--The career opened up by the Church to all classes, 129; even to serfs, 130--Education of the clergy, 131--The Universities, 136--Schools of thought, 136--The scholastic theology, 137--The contemplative, 138--Oxford: its colleges, 140--The students, 141--Ordination, 144--Institution, 146. CHAPTER X. PARSONAGE HOUSES. Like lay houses, 149--Examples at West Dean and Alfriston, Sussex, 152--Descriptions of: at Kelvedon, 154; Kingston-on-Thames, Bulmer, Ingrave, 155; Ingatestone, 156; Little Bromley, North Benfleet, 157; West Hanningfield, 158--Hospitality, 158--Smaller houses, 160--Dilapidations, 162. CHAPTER XI. FURNITURE AND DRESS. Sumptuary laws, 164--Disregard of them, 167--Contemporary pictures, 169--Extracts from wills, 172--Introduction of sober colours, 174--Wills, 175. CHAPTER XII. FABRIC AND FURNITURE OF CHURCHES, AND OFFICIAL VESTMENTS. Grandeur of the churches compared with domestic buildings, 184--Furniture of churches, 187, 190--List of necessary things, 189--Clerical vestments: pallium, chasuble, 191; stole, maniple, amice, dalmatic, 192; cope, surplice, 193; amyss, 194--Fanciful symbolism, 196; a bishop in “full canonicals,” 198. CHAPTER XIII. THE PUBLIC SERVICES IN CHURCH. Matins, mass, and evensong, 200--Sunday attendance, 201--Communion, 200--Laxity of practice, 204--Week-day services, 205--The Bidding Prayer, 207--Bede Roll, 211--Chantry services, 212. CHAPTER XIV. PREACHING AND TEACHING. Not neglected, 214--Manuals of teaching, 214; Archbishop Peckham’s, 216--Helps for preachers, 223--Analysis of sin, 226; Arbor Virtutum, 229; Arbor Viciorum, 230--Types and antitypes, 231. CHAPTER XV. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARISH PRIESTS. Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 3 Analysis of a book of that title by John Myrk, 232--The personal character and conduct which befit a priest, 233--A parish priest’s duties, 234--Non-communicating attendance at Holy Communion, 235, note--The “holy loaf,” 235--Behaviour of the people in church, 236--The people’s way of joining in the mass, 236--Behaviour in churchyard, 238--Visitation of the sick, 239. CHAPTER XVI. POPULAR RELIGION. Education more common than is supposed, 241--Books for the laity in French and English, 242--Creed and Vision of “Piers Plowman,” the tracts of Richard of Hampole and Wiclif, 242--“Lay Folks’ Mass-book,” 243--Primers, 249--Religious poetry: Cædmon, 250; “The Love of Christ for Man’s Soul,” 255; “The Complaint of Christ,” 256. CHAPTER XVII. THE CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY. Object of the obligation, 258--Opposition to it, 259--Introduced late in the Saxon period, 260--Endeavour to enforce it in Norman and later times, 261--Evasion of the canons, 268--Legal complications, 270--Popular view, 271--Disabilities of sons of the clergy, 273--Dispensations for it, 275. CHAPTER XVIII. VISITATION ARTICLES AND RETURNS. Visitation of parishes, 279--Visitation questions, 280--Examples from returns to the questions, 285--Popular estimation of the clergy, 289. CHAPTER XIX. PROVISION FOR OLD AGE. Assistant chaplain, 290--Coadjutor assigned, 291--A leprous vicar, 294--Retirement on a pension, 295--A retiring vicar builds for himself a “reclusorium” in the churchyard, 295--Parish chaplain retires on a pension, 296--Death and burial, 296. CHAPTER XX. THE PARISH CLERK. Ancient office, 298--Its duties, 299--Stipend, 301--Sometimes students for orders, 302--Gilds of parish clerks, 303--Chaucer’s parish clerk, 304. CHAPTER XXI. CUSTOMS. Sanctuary for persons, 306; and property, 307--Belonged to some persons, 308--Pilgrimage, 308--Special ceremonies, 311--Lights, 311--Miracles and passion plays, 315--Fairs, markets, and sports in the churchyard, 316--Church ales, 317. CHAPTER XXII. ABUSES. Papal invasions of the rights of patronage, 319--The intrusion of foreigners into benefices, 320--Abuse of patronage by the Crown, Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book Page 4 321--Pluralities, 323--Farming of benefices, 324--Holding of benefices by men in minor orders, 324--Absenteeism, 330--Serfdom, 332. CHAPTER XXIII. THE CATHEDRAL. Served by secular canons, 334--Organization of its clerical staff, 334--The dignitaries, 335--The dean and chapter, 335--Monastic cathedral, 336--Archdeacons, 337--Synods and visitations, 337--Lincoln Cathedral, 338--Bishop’s palace, 339--The close, 340--Residentiary houses, 341--Vicars’ court, 341--Chantries, 342--Chapter house, 342--Common room, 344--The first dean and canons, 343--Revenues of the bishop, 344; of the dean and dignitaries, 345; of the prebendaries, 350; of the archdeacons, 353; of the vicars choral, 354; of the chantry priests, 355; of the choristers, 356--Lay officers, 356--Chichester Cathedral, 359--Revenues of bishop, dean, dignitaries, prebendaries, archdeacons, and vicars choral, 360-362--Prince bishops, 363.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Download Full-List-Digitised-Mss-Dec-2019
    Shelfmark Contents Link to Digitised Manuscripts Add Ch 19788 Grant of King Wulfhere of the Mercians (d. 675) to http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19788 his kinsman Beorhtferth Add Ch 19789 Grant of Eanberht (fl. 757–759), Uhtred (fl. http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19789 757–777) and Ealdred (fl. 757–777), brothers and Add Ch 19790 Grant of King Offa of the Mercians (r. 757-796) to http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19790 Æthelmund, minister Add Ch 19791 Grant of Bishop Werferth (d. 907×915), with the http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19791 Worcester community, to Wulfsige, his reeve Add Ch 19792 Grant of Bishop Oswald (d. 992) to his kinsman http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19792 Osulf, the cniht Add Ch 19793 Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19793 Ælfwold, minister Add Ch 19794 Grant of Archbishop Oswald (d. 992) to Cynelm, http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19794 minister Add Ch 19795 Grant of Archbishop Wulfstan (d. 1023) to Wulfgifu http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19795 Add Ch 19796 Grant of Abbot Ælfweard of Evesham (d. 1044), and http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19796 the community at Evesham, to Æthelmær Add Ch 19797 Grant of Bishop Brihtheah of Worcester (r. http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_19797 1033–38) to Wulfmær, cniht Add Ch 19798 Grant of Bishop Lyfing of Worcester (d.
    [Show full text]
  • Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers 1 700-1 840
    THE DICTIONARY NORFOLK FURNITURE MAKERS 1700-1840 ABEL, Anthony, cm, 5 Upper Westwick Street, Free [?by purchase] 21/9/1664. Norwich (1778-1802). P 1734 (sen.). 1/12/1778 Apprenticed to Jonathan Hales, King’s ALLOYCE, Abraham jun., tur, St Lawrence, Lynn, £50 (5 yrs). Norwich (1695-1735). D1802. Free 4/3/1695 as s.o. Abraham Alloyce. ABEL, Daniel, up, Pottergate Street; then Bedford P 1710, 1714. 1734 (jun.). 1734/5 - supplement Street, Norwich (1838-1868). (Aloyce). These entries may be for A.A. sen. apart Apprenticed to Thomas Bennett. Free 25/7/1838. from 1734 where both are entered. D 1852, 1854 - cm up, Pottergate St. 1864, 1868 ALLURED, John, up, Market Place, Yarmouth - Bedford St., St Andrews. (1783-1797). ABEL, Thomas, cm, Pitt Street, Norwich App to William Seaman 19/3/1783* (James (1839-1842). D 1839, 1842. Allured), free 15/6/1790. ADCOCK, John, joi, St. Andrew, Norwich Took app William Lyall, 25/12/1790, £40 (5 yrs); (1715-1735). George Allured, 15/12/1792, £20. 28/4/1715 Apprenticed to Charles King, £4. Free NC 5/8/1797: ...John Allured, the younger, of 15/8/1722 as son of Thomas Adcock, tailor. Great Yarmouth...Upholsterer...declared a P 1734, 1734/5 supplement. Bankrupt. ALDEN, James, cm, Norwich (1814). NC 23/9/1797: Auction...Sept. 26, 1797...[4 NM 3/12/1814: Sunday last was married, at St. d ays]...All the genuine Stock in Trade and Giles’s, Mr. James Alden, cabinet-maker, to Miss Household Furniture of Mr. John Allured, Steavens, both of this city.
    [Show full text]
  • Thomas Percy: Literary Anthology and National Invention
    Thomas Percy: Literary Anthology and National Invention Danni Lynn Glover MA (Hons.), Scottish Language and Literature Faculty of Arts, Glasgow University 2012 MPhil., English language Faculty of Arts, Glasgow University 2014 Faculty of Arts, Ulster University Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) October 2017 I confirm that the total word count of this thesis is less than 100,000 words. Contents Acknowledgements i Abstract ii Note on Access to Contents iii Introduction 1 Contexts 1 A note on ‘Cultural Anglicanism’ 16 The Enlightenment Context 17 Research Questions and Methodologies 19 Review of Literature 30 Chapter one – Anthology as national canvas 45 Introduction 45 Anthology and Gothic Ruin 46 The Case for Anthologies of Translation 57 Identity and Ideology 61 Conclusion 71 Chapter two – National Identity in the Translated Anthology 73 Introduction 73 Recognising Identity in the Translated Anthology 73 Percy and Macpherson 82 Five Pieces of Runic Poetry 87 Hau Kiou Choaan and Miscellaneous Pieces 97 Conclusion 110 Chapter three – Britain and the Reliques 112 Introduction 112 Anthological Pretexts 113 Collaborators 118 Locating Anthology 123 Nation as Anthology, Anthology as Nation 133 The Britains of the Reliques 141 Conclusion 155 Chapter four – Applied Anthology 158 Introduction 158 Paratexts 158 Hearing Voices: Heteroglossia 179 Decolonizing the Canon: Colonialism, Gender, Labour 189 Conclusion 213 Conclusion 215 Future research 218 Final reflections 223 Bibliography 225 i Acknowledgements I offer my sincerest gratitude to my primary supervisor, Dr Frank Ferguson, whose knowledge, dedication, and sincere interest in my research has been indispensable at all stages of preparing this thesis. Thanks are also owed to Dr James Ward, whose thoughtful attention to detail made him an exemplary second supervisor.
    [Show full text]
  • Sir Hugh Lane and Mrs. Ruth Shine Papers
    Leabharlann Naisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 58 SIR HUGH LANE AND MRS. RUTH SHINE PAPERS (Mss 35,822-35,828) ACC. No. 5073 1 CONTENTS History and Organization of the Collection 3 1. LETTERS FROM LANE 4 2. LETTERS TO LANE 5-20 3. LETTERS TO RUTH SHINE 21-22 4. OTHER LETTERS 23-24 5. LANE’S DEATH AND ESTATE 25-26 6. ADDITIONAL PRINTED ITEMS 27-28 7. MISCELLANEOUS 29-30 Index 31-37 2 History and Organization of the Collection After the death of Sir Hugh (Percy) Lane on the Lusitania in 1915 his papers passed on to his sister Mrs. Ruth Shine (Later Mrs. A. R. Heaven). Material mostly relating to his death and his controversial will were added by Shine. On her death in 1959 the papers came into the custody of her executors, Mrs. G. de B. West (a cousin) and Mrs. Thistlethwaite, daughter of Harold Lane, brother of Sir Hugh Lane and Ruth Shine. The material was acquired by the National Library between 1960 and 2000 and the various accessions have been catalogued at various times: 1. Accession 2155: donated by Mrs. West in August 1960. 2. Accession 2293: purchased in July 1962. 3. Accession 2298: donated by Col. D.S.E. West, August 1962. 1-3 above are listed as Mss. 9975, 10,907-10,908, 10,929, 13,071-13,072 in Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilization vol. 3, p. 15. 4. Accession 4136: NLI Collection List 10; Mss. 27,736-27,793; donated by Mrs.
    [Show full text]
  • Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England
    RUNAWAY WIVES: HUSBAND DESERTION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND By Sara Butler Loyola University New Orleans Scholars of the medieval family would generally agree that the lot of the me- dieval wife was not an easy one. Medieval husbands held the upper hand in the power relationship, both legally and socially. Although Lawrence Stone's view of niarried life in the Middle Ages as "brutal and often hostile, with little communication, [and] much wife-beating" has since been called into question, more recent historians have still painted a somewhat unflattering picture.' Ju- dith Bennett writes that "[m]edieval people thought of conjugality as a hierar- chy headed by a husband who not only controlled his wife's financial assets and public behavior, but also freely enforced his will through physical violence."^ Indeed, she argues that wife-beating was "a normal part of marriage."^ Even Bar- bara Hanawalt, who has optimistically described peasant marriage in medieval England as a partnership, still concedes that occasional violence was acceptable and expected in marriage.'' What is more, the rules of coverture, which adhered to the biblical principal of husband and wife as one flesh represented at law by the husband, left a wife economically vulnerable. Because all real and movable property legally belonged to the husband as head of the household, a wife who fell out of favor with her husband might well find herself expelled from the family home, without any resources to fall back on.^ From a modern perspective, mari- tal practices hardly provided any sense of reassurance. At a time when families, more often than individuals, took the lead in spousal selection, and inheritance and status were the chief criteria, strong bonds of affection were not guaranteed.
    [Show full text]
  • The Southern Defences of Rochester Revisited
    The southern defences of Rochester revisited Early in 1344, the king was presented with a petition from the prior and convent of Rochester. The monks had come up with a plan to reconfigure the defences around the south-east side of the city. Since the city belonged to the king, they needed the king's permission; but that was not all they wanted. The king, they suggested, should give them the existing city ditch, outside the existing city wall, between the east gate of the city towards Canterbury (i.e. towards the east) and the prior's gate towards the south. If the king was willing to do that, the monks, in return, would build a new city wall, at their own expense, on their own land, outside the old ditch (which they intended to fill up), and dig a new ditch, outside the new wall; and they would undertake, for themselves and their successors for ever, to keep the new wall in repair. The monks' petition (doc 1) does not survive in the original,* but the gist of it is known from three documents which do. These are they: (doc 2) a letter from the king to the constable of the castle, John de Cobham, dated 28 Apr 1344, ordering him to convene a jury of citizens to inquire into the matter; (doc 3) the report of this inquiry, dated 12 May 1344, to the effect that the jurors see no reason why the king should not approve the monks' proposal; (doc 4) an open letter from the king, dated 23 Apr [sic]† 1344, letting it be known that he has given the monks permission to proceed.
    [Show full text]
  • Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide Biographical Sources for Archbishops of Canterbury from 1052 to the Present Day
    Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide Biographical Sources for Archbishops of Canterbury from 1052 to the Present Day 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 3 2 Abbreviations Used ....................................................................................................... 4 3 Archbishops of Canterbury 1052- .................................................................................. 5 Stigand (1052-70) .............................................................................................................. 5 Lanfranc (1070-89) ............................................................................................................ 5 Anselm (1093-1109) .......................................................................................................... 5 Ralph d’Escures (1114-22) ................................................................................................ 5 William de Corbeil (1123-36) ............................................................................................. 5 Theobold of Bec (1139-61) ................................................................................................ 5 Thomas Becket (1162-70) ................................................................................................. 6 Richard of Dover (1174-84) ............................................................................................... 6 Baldwin (1184-90) ............................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • York Clergy Ordinations 1374-1399
    York Clergy Ordinations 1374-1399 Edited by David M. Smith 2020 www.york.ac.uk/borthwick archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk Online images of the Archbishops’ Registers cited in this edition can be found on the York’s Archbishops’ Registers Revealed website. The conservation, imaging and technical development work behind the digitisation project was delivered thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Register of Alexander Neville 1374-1388 Register of Thomas Arundel 1388-1396 Sede Vacante Register 1397 Register of Robert Waldby 1397 Sede Vacante Register 1398 Register of Richard Scrope 1398-1405 YORK CLERGY ORDINATIONS 1374-1399 Edited by DAVID M. SMITH 2020 CONTENTS Introduction v Ordinations held 1374-1399 vii Editorial notes xiv Abbreviations xvi York Clergy Ordinations 1374-1399 1 Index of Ordinands 169 Index of Religious 249 Index of Titles 259 Index of Places 275 INTRODUCTION This fifth volume of medieval clerical ordinations at York covers the years 1374 to 1399, spanning the archiepiscopates of Alexander Neville, Thomas Arundel, Robert Waldby and the earlier years of Richard Scrope, and also including sede vacante ordinations lists for 1397 and 1398, each of which latter survive in duplicate copies. There have, not unexpectedly, been considerable archival losses too, as some later vacancy inventories at York make clear: the Durham sede vacante register of Alexander Neville (1381) and accompanying visitation records; the York sede vacante register after Neville’s own translation in 1388; the register of Thomas Arundel (only the register of his vicars-general survives today), and the register of Robert Waldby (likewise only his vicar-general’s register is now extant) have all long disappeared.1 Some of these would also have included records of ordinations, now missing from the chronological sequence.
    [Show full text]
  • CRUX April 19
    25p CRUX Issue 49 Church for a different world April 2019 EASTER BLESSINGS Church for a different world CRUX April 2019 CELEBRATING FAIRTRADE OUR A STITCH CONSTANT IN TIME HOPE If you sew or are part of a church sewing group, can you help the North It plays havoc with school timetables Manchester General Hospital by making and complicates many people’s a banner for the Chapel of St Luke? holiday arrangements, but I quite like the fact that the date of Easter Please contact Revd Kathryn can vary, by up to a month or Carmyllie with any offers of help. more, from one year to the next. It Tel: 0161 720 2990; Kathryn. reminds me that the joyful news of [email protected] the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the proof of his sonship, the assurance of our hope, cannot be confined to any one day in the secular diary. HOST UK Jesus conquers all constraints, not just the calendar, but even death itself. Would you consider offering the hand of He invites us to join him to break the friendship to an international student by barriers that seek to deaden you and welcoming them to your home? Host UK Manchester Cathedral hosted a wonderful event me. In his company we can journey on is looking for volunteer hosts who can called Changing the World Through Fairtrade and the boldly, fearful of neither change itself offer hospitality for one day or for three nor the pace of unpredictable change days and two nights over a weekend. diocese launched its own Fairtrade chocolate bar to which typifies our present era.
    [Show full text]
  • Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature
    Bernadette Filotas PAGAN SURVIVALS, SUPERSTITIONS AND POPULAR CULTURES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL PASTORAL LITERATURE Is medieval pastoral literature an accurate reflection of actual beliefs and practices in the early medieval West or simply of literary conventions in- herited by clerical writers? How and to what extent did Christianity and traditional pre-Christian beliefs and practices come into conflict, influence each other, and merge in popular culture? This comprehensive study examines early medieval popular culture as it appears in ecclesiastical and secular law, sermons, penitentials and other pastoral works – a selective, skewed, but still illuminating record of the be- liefs and practices of ordinary Christians. Concentrating on the five cen- turies from c. 500 to c. 1000, Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature presents the evidence for folk religious beliefs and piety, attitudes to nature and death, festivals, magic, drinking and alimentary customs. As such it provides a precious glimpse of the mu- tual adaptation of Christianity and traditional cultures at an important period of cultural and religious transition. Studies and Texts 151 Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature by Bernadette Filotas Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION Filotas, Bernadette, 1941- Pagan survivals, superstitions and popular cultures in early medieval pastoral literature / by Bernadette Filotas.
    [Show full text]
  • 9780521633482 INDEX.Pdf
    Cambridge University Press 0521633486 - A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria N. J. G. Pounds Index More information INDEX abandonment, of settlement 90–1 rail 442 Abbots Ripton, briefs 270, 271 (map) tomb 497 abortion 316–17; herbs for 316 altarage 54 Abraham and Isaac 343 Altarnon church 347, 416 absenteeism 564 Alvingham priory 63 abuse, verbal 258 Ancaster stone 402 accounts, clerical 230 Andover parish 22, 23 (map) parochial 230 Anglican liturgy 481 wardens’ 230 Anglo-Saxon churches 113 acolyte 162 Annates 229 Act of Unification 264 anticlericalism 220, 276 Adderbury, building of chancel 398–9 in London 147 adultery 315 apparition 293 Advent 331 appropriation 50–4, 62–6, 202 (map) Advowson 42, 50, 202 apse 376, 378 Ælfric’s letter 183 Aquae bajulus 188 Æthelberht, King 14 Aquinas, Thomas 161, 459 Æthelflaeda of Mercia 135 archdeaconries 42 Æthelstan, law code of 29 archdeacons 162, 181, 249 affray, in church courts 291–2; over seats 477 courts of 174–6, 186, 294–6, 299, 303 aged, support of 196 and wills 307 agonistic principle 340 archery 261–2 aisles 385–7, 386 (diag.) Arles, Council of 7, 9 ales 273, see church-ales, Scot-ales Ascension 331 Alexander III, Pope 55, 188, 292 Ashburton 146 Alkerton chapel 94 accounts of 231 All Hallows, Barking 114 church-ale at 241 All Saints, Bristol, library at 286–8 pews in 292 patrons of 410 Ashwell, graffiti at 350–1 All Saints’ Day 331, 333 audit, of wardens’ accounts 182–3 altar 309 auditory church 480 candles on 434 augmentations, court of 64 consecration of 442–3 Augustinian order 33, 56 covering of 437 Austen, Jane 501 desecration of 454 Avicenna 317 frontals 430, 437 Aymer de Valence 57 material of 442 number of 442 Bag Enderby 416 placement of 442 Bakhtin, Mikhail 336 position of 486 balance sheet of parish 236–9 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521633486 - A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria N.
    [Show full text]
  • School of Oriental and African Studies)
    BRITISH ATTITUDES T 0 INDIAN NATIONALISM 1922-1935 by Pillarisetti Sudhir (School of Oriental and African Studies) A thesis submitted to the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1984 ProQuest Number: 11010472 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 11010472 Published by ProQuest LLC(2018). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 2 ABSTRACT This thesis is essentially an analysis of British attitudes towards Indian nationalism between 1922 and 1935. It rests upon the argument that attitudes created paradigms of perception which condi­ tioned responses to events and situations and thus helped to shape the contours of British policy in India. Although resistant to change, attitudes could be and were altered and the consequent para­ digm shift facilitated political change. Books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, private papers of individuals, official records, and the records of some interest groups have been examined to re-create, as far as possible, the structure of beliefs and opinions that existed in Britain with re­ gard to Indian nationalism and its more concrete manifestations, and to discover the social, political, economic and intellectual roots of the beliefs and opinions.
    [Show full text]