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Cornell University Press Wondrous Healing
Book SynopsisThis text explains why beliefs in supernatural forces - ghosts, poltergeists, witches, and spirits - are based on universal experience. The author aims to demonstrate that age-old healing rituals such as chanting and rythmic dancing have scientifically verifiable benefits.Trade Review"Provocative and challenging.... Fascinating reading."—Journal of Religion and Society "An important contribution to religious studies, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology... there is nothing like it."—William Irons, Northwestern University "A valuable fresh perspective on the intersection of religious and anomalous experiences, the behavioral sciences, and evolutionary theory."—Transcultural PsychiatryTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: Evolution and Religion 1. The Evolution of Wondrous Healing 2. Fertility, Childbirth, and Suggestion 3. The Anthropology of Wondrous Healing 4. Wondrous Healing, Hypnotizability, and Folklore 5. The Seeds of Religion 6. When the Seeds of Religion Sprout Conclusion: Criticisms and Challenges Appendix Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Heartland Utopias
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of 19th century utopian communities in the heartland from the first Shaker village near Dayton, Ohio, built in 1807, to the 1903 incorporation and ensuing stormy history of The House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan.Trade Review"Finally the American Midwest has received long-overdue recognition as the prime center of American utopian communalism. Robert Sutton has greatly expanded our understanding of the communal spirit and of the geography of communalism with this work that is the fruit of a lifetime of scholarship."—Timothy Miller, University of KansasTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction 1. Shaker Villages 2. New Harmony 3. Other Separatist Communities 4. Fourierist Phalanxes 5. Icaria 6. Hutterite Bruderhofs 7. Chicago Area Utopias 8. Contemporary Heartland Utopias Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Orthodox Russia in Crisis
Book SynopsisA pivotal period in Russian history, the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century has taken on new resonance in the country's post-Soviet search for new national narratives. This title provides comprehensive study of the church during the Troubles.Trade ReviewIsaiah Gruber's book is a useful addition to the growing English-language literature on the 'Time of Troubles' of the early seventeenth century. * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *Isaiah Gruber has produced a fascinating study. It shows the importance of both the institutional and ideological power of the Church in Russia at this time and, despite the anti-Semitic tenor of much of Russian life in this period, the importance of the Jewish lineage for official discourse. It is an important addition to our understanding of the time of troubles and, through that, to the way both societies and institutions handle crisis. * Australian Journal of Jewish Studies *Gruber's book is an important contribution to understanding the relations between ideology and pragmatism in the Russian church elite's pursuit of power. * Slavic Review *An important and welcome addition to our ever-growing knowledge about the varieties of Russian Orthodoxy. * Slavonica *Gruber's book provides an excellent window on a seldom-researched subject and certainly contributes considerably to the historiography already extant on the Time of Troubles. It is also highly pertinent to the situation in contemporary Russia. * European History Quarterly *Isaiah Gruber's new book offers a lively account and an exciting analysis of Russia's 'Time of Troubles,' 1598–1613-a period of dynastic collapse, social upheaval, and foreign invasion... Gruber has written a riveting and original account of a fascinating time. * American Catholic Historical Review *
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MB - Cornell University Press Making Moros
Book SynopsisMaking Moros offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines. Hawkins argues that the ethnological discovery, organization, and subsequent colonial engineering of Moros was highly contingent on developing notions of time, history, and evolution, which ultimately superseded simplistic notions about race. He also argues that this process was highly collaborative, with Moros participating, informing, guiding, and even investing in their configuration as modern subjects.Drawing on a wealth of archival sources from both the United States and the Philippines, Making Moros presents a series of compelling episodes and gripping evidence to demonstrate its thesis. Readers will find themselves with an uncommon understanding of the Philippines'' Muslim South beyond its usual tangential place as a mere subset of American empire.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this book. This is a fine contribution to the new imperial history and subaltern studies. Its relevance goes beyond Filipino historiography and the early twentieth century. * H-Net Reviews *Well written and theoretically sophisticated, the book merits the attention of those interested in American imperialism and the history of the Philippines. * The Journal of American History *Essential reading for scholars of Mindanao, Philippine, and postcolonial history alike. * The Journal of Asian Studies *
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Cornell University Press Primacy in the Church from Vatican I to Vatican
Book SynopsisThe primacy of the bishop of Rome, the pope, as it was finally shaped in the Middle Ages and later defined by Vatican I and II has been one of the thorniest issues in the history of the Western and Eastern Churches. This issue was a primary cause of the division between the two Churches and the events that followed the schism of 1054: the sack of Constantinople by the crusaders in 1204, the appointment by Pope Innocent III of a Latin patriarch of Constantinople, and the establishment of Uniatism as a method and model of union. Always a topic in ecumenical dialogue, the issue of primacy has appeared to be an insurmountable obstacle to the realization of full unity between Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox Christianity. In this timely and comprehensive work, Maximos Vgenopoulos analyzes the response of major Orthodox thinkers to the Catholic understanding of the primary of the pope over the last two centuries, showing the strengths and weaknesses of these positions.Covering a
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Cornell University Press Polish Catholics in Chicago 18501920
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Cornell University Press Feasting and Social Oscillation
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Cornell University Press The Symbolism of the Stupa
Book SynopsisA close analysis of the architecture of the stupa—a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, who trained as an architect, examines both the physical and metaphysical levels of these buildings, which...Trade ReviewThis volume is without a doubt the most complete presentation of this infinitely complex phenomenon. * Journal of Asian Studies *
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Cornell University Press A Mountain of Difference
Book SynopsisThis book complicates our understanding of Mindanao's history and ethnography, and outlines the beginning of an autonomous history for the marginalized Lumad peoples.
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East European Monographs The Politics of Rite Jesuit Uniate and Romanian
Book SynopsisOldson examines the efforts of religious authorities in Western Europe to reconstruct a Catholic majority in Transylvania after the Ottoman Empire ceded control of the region. These attempts sparked a pronounced sense of Romanian historical consciousness that resulted in an impassioned religious and cultural resistance, centering on the Eastern liturgy.Trade ReviewUseful, readable, and worth reading. -- Paul E. Michelson Slavic Review
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Academy of American Franciscan History Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed A
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Charlemagnes Survey of the Holy Land
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection The Old Testament in Byzantium
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University of Manitoba Press Rekindling the Sacred Fire Metis Ancestry and
Book SynopsisWhy don't more Metis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Metis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Metis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Metis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies.
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Returning to Ceremony Spirituality in Manitoba
Book SynopsisExamines Metis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as ‘all Metis people are Catholic’, and ‘Metis people do not go to ceremonies’. Fiola finds that, among the Métis, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and that Métis spirituality includes ceremonies. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Métis Spirituality: Confronting Stereotypes Chapter 2: Searching for Our Stories in Oral History Chapter 3: Combing the Written Record for Our Stories Chapter 4: A Métis-Centred Study and Approach Chapter 5: Six Red River Métis Communities Chapter 6: Meeting the Participants Chapter 7: Métis Family Relationships with Land, Language, and Identity Chapter 8: Métis Family Relationships with Culture and Religion Chapter 6: Sunnyside and the Bea Chapter 9: Exploring Self-Identification Chapter 10: Spirituality, Types of Ceremonies, and Disconnection Factors Chapter 11: Connection Factors, Impacts upon Identity, and Others’ Reactions Chapter 11: Métis Spirituality Today
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni Religion in History La religion dans lhistoire
Book SynopsisExploring critically different aspects of the concept and study of religion, these provocative essays typically reflect the methodological pluralism currently existing in the field of Religious Studies. Of interest to scholars and students alike, this collection also contains a complete bibliography of W.C. Smith's publications.Trade Review``ã la lecture, les collaborations, dans leur ensemble, constituent de solides contributions, soit comme introduction, synthã¨se ou examen spã©cifique....[L]e lecteur y trouvera matiã¨re stimulante ã l'ã©largissement de ses connaissances et ã la rã©flexion critique.'' -- Recensions``Despland and Vallé (Concordia and McMaster Universities respectively) present an excellent state-of-the-art review of the history of the concept of "religion" in the Western tradition.... These very provocative essays are of great interest to scholars and students alike.'' -- Jacques Goulet, Mount Saint Vincent University -- Studies in Religion, 23/1, 1994
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Getty Trust Publications Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum
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London Record Society London Consistory Court Wills 1492 1547
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Pipe Roll Society The White Book ILiber AlbusI of Southwell
Book SynopsisFirst complete edition of an invaluable and extensive collection of medieval documents.with contributions from Neil Bettridge, Jean Cameron, Paul Cavill and Teresa Webber. The White Book of Southwell derives its name from its white vellum cover. Compiled between c.1350 and 1460, with a few later additions, its 500 pages record 620 individual documents from c.1100 onwards. They range widely from papal bulls and royal charters, quo warranto inquiries, privileges granted by many archbishops of York to the Chapter at Southwell,individual canons (or prebendaries) and the parishes where the Minster held lands or controlled livings. The majority date from c.1200-1460 and concern properties which the Chapter owned and administered through its courts, for which some rare proceedings are preserved. Because of their variety, the documents it contains are important not simply for ecclesiastical history but for broader social and economic trends in medieval Nottinghamshire either side of the BlackTrade ReviewThese volumes deserve to be widely used and plundered, and doubtless will be. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This is an exemplary edition.It is very satisfactory that at last there is an authoritative source for historians wishing to check a point of detail concerning the history or constitution of the Southwell chapter. * THE RICARDIAN *Editing this manuscript has been an important, and challenging undertaking, in terms of size, date and range of documentation. The expertise of the several editors here is very much apparent. -- Northern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction The White Book of Southwell Appendix A: Additional documents relating to the privileges and administration of the Collegiate church of St Mary's, Southwell, not found in the White Book Appendix B: Check-list of documents in chronological order to 1540 illustrating the privileges and administration of the Collegiate church of St Mary's, Southwell, and its estates not included in the White Book, the 'Second Cartulary' or Appendix A Appendix C: Summary Fasti of Canons and Prebendaries of Southwell to 1540
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Lincolnshire Parish Clergy c.12141968 A Biogr
Book SynopsisThe first volume in what will be a complete biographical record of all parish priests in Lincolnshire.Trade ReviewThis volume has helped open the window into the careers of the lower ranks of beneficed clergy - the infantrymen of the Church - and from these laconic entries we see how careers unfolded for hundreds and hundreds of men. . . . It is truly a prosopograpical gold mine. * MEDIEVAL PROSOPOGRAPHY *A fine start to what promises to be a notable series of volumes. * RICARDIAN *[A] highly useful reference tool, not only for historians of Lincolnshire but also for Church historians generally. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *Table of ContentsIntroduction Deanery of Aslacoe Deanery of Aveland
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church
Book SynopsisEdition of the first complete cartulary of Lincoln Cathedral, comprising over 1,000 documents.The Registrum Antiquissimum is the earliest complete cartulary of Lincoln Cathedral. It was written mainly in the third decade of the thirteenth century, and prepared from the original texts, many of which have not survived. Its editor, Canon Foster, noted that its writer "copied with literal accuracy. As a consequence his texts may be relied upon". The charters illustrate the history of an English secular cathedral church in respect of its organisation and personnel, its endowments and its franchises. The Introduction notes that the texts of 7,826 charters have survived of which 4,200 are the original documents. There are 1,073 charters in the Registrum Antiquissimum. The documents in the Registrum Antiquissimum include charters of the possessions not only of the common of the canons, and of the prebends, but also of the see of Lincoln. These possessions lay dispersed throughout the diocese of Lincoln which, as constituted by William the Conqueror, stretched, until the middle of the sixteenth century, from the Humber to the Thames. It comprised the counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Huntingdon, part of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. Outside the diocese, the charters relate to land in London and in the counties of Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Surry, and Yorkshire. But it is for the history of the Northern Danelaw that the Lincoln charters are of first-rate importance.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Robert Grosseteste as Bishop of Lincoln
Book SynopsisFirst modern edition of medieval ecclesiastical documents illuminates the career of a senior prelate.Robert Grosseteste, teacher, scholar and pastor, remains one of the dominant figures of the medieval English church. A major influence on the early history of Oxford University, his writings on a wide range of theological and scientific subjects have been widely studied. His concern for pastoral care is also well attested; as bishop of Lincoln from 1235 until his death in 1253, he had the opportunity to exercise the pastoral office in the largest diocesein western Europe. But how did Grosseteste's theories of pastoral care work out in practice? The study of Grosseteste's career as a diocesan bishop has been hampered by the relative inaccessibility of the records of his episcopate, published in an unsatisfactory edition in 1911 and long out of print. This completely new edition of Grosseteste's episcopal rolls makes it possible to take a fresh look at how he tackled the vexed issues of clerical ignorance, pluralism and non-residence in the aftermath of the reforms of the Lateran Council of 1215. They are presented here with an introductory study and elucidatory notes. Dr Philippa M. Hoskin is Reader in medieval history at the University of LincolnTrade ReviewThis edition is indispensable for everyone who wants to gain access to this important witness to the history of the diocese of Lincoln in Grosseteste's reign. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *This important edition will prove indispensable not only to scholars working on the diocese of Lincoln but also to anyone interested in episcopal rolls and registers and their evolution. * SEHEPUNKTE *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Bibliography Introduction Archdeaconry of Lincoln Archdeaconry of Northampton Archdeaconry of Oxford Archdeaconry of Stow Archdeaconry of Leicester Archdeaconry of Bedford Archdeaconry of Buckingham Archdeaconry of Huntingdon Appendix 1: The itinerary of Bishop Grosseteste Appendix 2: The Structure of the Rolls Index of Persons and Places
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Catholic Record Society Victorian Churches and Churchmen Essays
Book SynopsisArticles on religion and the religious during the Victorian period, showing its unity and disunity.The major themes of Catholic historiography and the history of education during the Victorian era unite the essays collected here, as is fitting for a volume honouring the work in these fields of Professor Vincent Alan McClelland.There is a particular emphasis upon the life and work of Cardinal Manning; other figures and topics considered include Father Randal Lythgoe, Cardinal Newman, the English Benedictine contribution to the British Empire, modern Scottish Catholic history, and Victorian Christianity in its various forms, as in the essays on Methodism and the Church of Ireland.Trade ReviewWell researched and well written. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *There will be many who will want to possess this volume, not least in honour of the one for whom it was written. Furthermore, they will be delighted to discover a significant treasure trove of insight into the life of the Church in the nineteenth century. * RECUSANT HISTORY *Table of Contents- Volume 1 Cardinal Manning and his Political Persona: the Education Act of 1870 - Jeffrey von Arx Henry Edward Manning, Priscilla Maurice, and the Pastoral Care of the Sick - Peter Erb The Cardinal and the Penitent: Cardinal Manning and Virginia Crawford - Robin Gard Henry O'Callaghan: Manning's Reluctant Episcopal Protégé - Leo Gooch 'Education and Correct Conduct': Randal Lythgoe and the Work of the Society of Jesus in Early Victorian England and Wales - Maurice Whitehead The English Benedictines and the British Empire - Aidan Bellenger Varieties of Modern Scottish Conservatism - B A Aspinwall The Myth and Reality of Sr. Barbara Ubryk, the Imprisoned Nun of Cracow: English Interpretations of a Victorian English ControversyControversy - Rene Kollar, OSB, Bernard Ward: Edmundian and Historian - S Foster Tradition and Conversion in English Literature - Joseph Pearce Newman's Idea of a University, 'The Circle of Sciences' and the Constitution of the Church - Wulstan Peterburs, OSB, Thomas Arnold: A Bicentenary Appraisal - David Newsome Tractarians and National Education - James Pereiro The Reverend Canon Henry Kingsmill Moore D.D., Ball. Coll. Oxon. FLS., and Church of Ireland Education, 1880-1927 - Susan M. Parkes 'Scott's Folly' - John Scott and the Development of the Wesleyan Educational System - John Smith Anglicanism 'Represented' or 'Misrepresented'? The Oxford Movement, Evangelicalism, and History: The Controversial Use of the Caroline Divines in the Victorian Church of Englandthe Caroline Divines in the Victorian Church of England - Peter B Nockles
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Edmund Lacy Bishop of Exeter
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chapters of the Augustinian Canons
Book SynopsisIncludes an editorial introduction by H.E. Salter and an appendix of documents connected with the chapters.The first General Chapter of the Augustinian Order in England, intended to regulate the affairs of the Order, took place in 1217. The records of this and subsequent meetings and legislation (the last document dates from 1518) formthe substance of this book, together with documents relating to the holding of General Chapters.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Edmund Lacy Bishop of Exeter
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Registrum Thome de Cantilupo
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis outstanding achievement is a tribute to English scholarship [and] an indication of the richness of the surviving English medieval sources... These fine editions lead the modern scholar deep into the workings of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century dioceses. * ALBION *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Rotuli Hugonis de Welles II
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Rotuli Hugonis de Welles III
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Registrum Ade de Orleton
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of John de Halton A.D.12921324 I
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Registrum Matthei Parker diocesis Cantuariensis
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Register of Robert Hallum Bishop of Salisbury
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of John Morton Archbishop of
Book SynopsisMorton's register is remarkable for the proportion of sede vacante material, and although the records are far from complete, for those dioceses where the Official's sede vacanteregister was bound up at Lambeth thereis a wealth of fascinating detail.Trade ReviewThe record is exceptionally rich, 'perhaps the fullest account of the administration of any English diocese over a short space of time'...valuable edition. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW A welcome addition to the literature on affairs in the late medieval diocese and a fascinating and absorbing cross-section of life in the last years before the Reformation. * NEWSLETTER, NORFOLK & NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Walter Langton Bishop of Coventry
Book SynopsisCompletes the register of Walter Langton, a leading figure in political life at the time.Langton's register is important for two reasons: it is the earliest extant register for the medieval diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, and it has shed new light on the life of one of the period's key political figures (Langton was treasurer of Edward I and briefly of Edward II, suspended from episcopal office by Pope Boniface VIII and twice imprisoned). This volume completes the calendar of the register; it chiefly comprises ordination lists, but also contains charters confirming Langton's paternity. JILL HUGHES is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.Table of ContentsOrdination Lists Appendix A: Full original text of entries marked with asterisks in volume I Appendix B: Table of known ordination services held in the diocese Appendix C: List of ordination services, showing the date, where they were held, and the celebrant Appendix D: Bishop Langton's itinerary Index of Persons and Places Index of Subjects
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Richard Fleming bishop of Lincoln
Book SynopsisNewly edited documents bring to life a hitherto shadowy figure, revealing the details of his work in the church.Founder of Lincoln College, Oxford, and staunch opponent of the teachings of John Wycliffe, Richard Fleming is best known for his academic interests and his concern to prevent the spread of heresy. He has, however, left little trace in the archives apart from his episcopal register, of which this volume forms the second part of an edition. It comprises a calendar of the institutions of clergy to benefices in the archdeaconries of Leicester, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham and Oxford, the collations of dignities and prebends in Lincoln Cathedral, and the ordinations of clerks, whether beneficed, unbeneficed or in religious orders, to the sacred ministry. The workings of the administration of the vast diocese of Lincoln can be seen running smoothly, even when the bishop was absent overseas on diplomatic business, revealing Fleming as an effective diocesan and a conscientious shepherd of his flock. N.H. BENNETT is Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral.Trade Reviewcarries a step further the edition of this important episcopal register. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsPreface Editorial Method Register
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Petitions to the Crown from English Religious
Book SynopsisPetitions are vital sources for our knowledge of life in the middle ages. A selection is presented here with English summaries, notes, and introduction.Through the petitions which they addressed to the crown the people of medieval England speak to us directly: the human interest stories they reveal are perhaps the nearest thing to local newspapers which the middle ages have leftus. Petitions were the subject's last resort when normal channels of law and government had failed, and offered kings the opportunity to exercise qualities of generosity, compassion, and sound judgment. However, despite their importance, they have not hitherto been recognized as a source for ecclesiastical history, a gap which this volume rectifies. A selection of over 200 cases shows the religious of medieval England taking full advantage of this mechanism, petitioning as landowners, neighbours, citizens, individuals, and religious orders. The subjects covered range from requests for tax rebates, and complaints about royal officials, to disputes with tenants, with townsmen, monastic rivals, and ecclesiastical superiors. National politics and international warfare are also represented, as are coastal erosion, and higher education. English summaries, explanatory notes and an extensive introduction enhance the reader's appreciation of this rich and remarkable resource. Dr Gwilym Dodd is Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham, where Dr Alison K. McHardy also taught until her retirement.Trade ReviewThis is an interesting set of documents deserving of greater attention, which this volume will no doubt engender. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial Method Part One. Routine Cases Part Two. Royal Intercession: The Obligation of the Crown Part Three. Royal Intercession: Matters Requiring the King's Grace Part Four. Royal Intercession: Petitions Involving Third Parties Part Five. Petitions from Corporate Religious Identities Part Six. Petitions against Abbots and Priors
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of William Melton Archbishop of York
Book SynopsisThis volume, continuing the series of great medieval bishops' registers, offers material valuable for both religious and social history.The register of Archbishop William Melton is one of the largest and most comprehensive to survive. Its backbone is the institution of clergy and licences to them, papal provisions and ordination of vicars and chantries, but it also contains a wealth of material for social history. During the period it covers, the East Riding of Yorkshire was flourishing, and a number of entries in the register reflect the challenges which the newly-founded town of Kingstonupon Hull was causing for the existing parochial structure. The archbishop is shown anathematizing malefactors who stole his swans and invaded his liberties in Beverley and the river Hull, and demanding the return of stolen woolon behalf of a merchant whose ship had been wrecked in the river Humber. The register also covers the origins of one of the last monasteries to be founded in medieval England, Haltemprice, and reveals the shortcomings of monks andnuns as well as secular clergy and members of the laity; more widely, many entries reflect the tensions between outlying vills and chapelries and their mother churches. The text is presented here with introduction, apparatus, and notes which elucidate the entries. David Robinson, until his retirement County Archivist of Surrey, was awarded his PhD from the University of Cambridge.Trade ReviewA fine addition to the Canterbury and York Society series. * ARCHIVES *A worthy, valuable addition to the series that brings this significant editorial project one step closer to completion. * NORTHERN HISTORY *The edition is extremely well done. [...] A valuable, rewarding and welcome addition to the run of Canterbury and York Society publications. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsPreface Archdeaconry of the East Riding Index of Persons and Places Index of Subjects
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Edward Story bishop of Chichester
Book SynopsisEdition of the register of a late-medieval bishop's register sheds fascinating light on life at the time.Edward Story, fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later master of Michaelhouse, was also, in two terms as chancellor, a university administrator. But it was as a royal servant that he rose to eminence from about 1460 to servesucceeding monarchs with the impartial efficiency of a career civil servant. Bishop of Carlisle from 1468, he was translated in 1478 to Chichester, which, although conterminous with the county of Sussex, contained several exempt jurisdictions, notably the archbishop of Canterbury's deanery of South Malling. The register begins with Story's primary visitation of his diocese.The full record reveals both the shortcomings of the cathedral chapter and of those religious houses subject to episcopal jurisdiction. Besides purely diocesan matters such as ordinations, collations and institutions, clerical indiscipline and the exercise of his judicial authority, the extraordinary actionsrequired of the bishop are reflected not only in reports of local suspicions of heresy, but also in matters of national importance such as summonses to convocation, clerical taxation, natural disasters such as plague, and external threats to the kingdom. The documents are presented here in translation with full notes and introduction. Janet Stevenson, formerly an assistant editor of the Victoria History of Wiltshire, has edited The Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Record Society, 42, 1987) and The Durford Cartulary (Sussex Record Society, 90, 2006).Trade ReviewIllustrates the variety of miscellaneous material that such registers unexpectedly contain. * ARCHIVES *[T]his is undeniably a job well done, for which the editor is to be heartily thanked, and a worthy and worthwhile addition to the CYS series. * CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW *Bishops' registers are a rich source for those interested in a particular diocese or bishop and also offer a wonderful perspective on wider topics. Without the work of the Canterbury and York Society these sources would be largely inaccessible to the vast majority of historians. * THE RICARDIAN *Dr Stevenson and the Canterbury and York Society are to be congratulated on adding another fine volume to the society's already impressive portfolio. * SOUTHERN HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Text Appendix I: Itinerary of Bishop Story Appendix II: Proposed Visitation Itineraries for 1478 and 1482 Appendix III: Concordance of WSRO, Ep. I/1/3 Appendix IV: Concordance of WSRO, Ep. I/1/4 Index of Persons and Places Index of Subjects
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Proctors for Parliament Clergy Community and
Book SynopsisEdition of a major, previously unpublished, source for the history of England's medieval parliament.In the Middle Ages clergy of all ranks, from archbishops to parochial clergy, sent proctors to parliament, whether as representatives of constituency groups - diocesan clergy and cathedral chapters - or substitutes for those expected to attend in person. The National Archives series SC 10 contains 2,520 surviving letters of appointments by these parliamentarians, both groups and, more especially, individuals, cathedral deans, archdeacons, and many bishops;especially valuable are the letters sent by bishops whose registers have not survived, as in the case of Chichester and of the Welsh dioceses. Most numerous of all are the letters of parliamentary abbots. This second of twovolumes presents the first printed edition of the documents, opening up a level of political activity and interaction which has hitherto been unexplored. It covers the years from the accession of Richard II until the end of the series under Henry VIII; it also includes an analysis of the proctors, and the indices to both volumes. PHIL BRADFORD gained his PhD in medieval history from the University of York and is currently Vicar of St Michael's,Worcester; ALISON K. MCHARDY was formerly Reader in Medieval English History at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on the relations between crown and church in late-medieval England, and on the politics of Richard II's reign.Trade ReviewAn important resource. [It] will undoubtedly become an essential tool for students of both ecclesiastical and parliamentary history. * THE RICARDIAN *An impressive undertaking. * PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY *The Canterbury and York Society, are to be commended for bringing an impressive scholarly contribution to the history of the medieval English parliament to publication. This edition should deservedly serve as a key resource for anyone working on medieval parliament and parliamentary representation, bringing these `forgotten men' back into the picture. * PARLIAMENTS, ESTATES & REPRESENTATION *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial Practice Calendar Appendix 1: SC 10 appointments by secular peers Appendix 2: Appointments in the Journals of the House of Lords, 1510-39 Appendix 3: Proxy appointments for February 1536 in the British Library Appendix 4: Appointments of proctors in episcopal registers Appendix 5: York Minster Library Ms 22 Appendix 6: Proctors of Peterborough Abbey Appendix 7: Biographical details for proctors
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Richard Praty Bishop of
Book SynopsisA rare survival among Chichester registers, this gives a full and rounded picture of the diocese during a period when many other church records are thin and formulaic.This is one of only three surviving Chichester bishops' registers, and the last to be published. It gives a full and detailed picture of church life during the middle years of Henry VI's reign, and so presents a valuable corrective to the period as one dominated by political strife. Richard Praty was an Oxford-trained theologian, an expert on the treatment of heretics, and a conscientious resident diocesan who worked hard to uphold standards, to ordain clergy, and yet to fulfil his obligations to the crown. It is among the richest and fullest of any bishop's register of the fifteenth century, and paints a true picture, warts and all, of the late-medieval English church.Trade Review[...] this is an excellent new addition to the calendars of medieval English episcopal registers published by the Canterbury and York Society. It very well researched and presented and is heartily recommended to all those with an interest in the pre-Reformation English church. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Register: WSRO, Ep. I/1/2 Editorial Note Text Appendix I: Bishop Praty's Itinerary Appendix II: Concordance of WSRO, Ep. I/1/2 Index of Persons and Places Index of subjects
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of Richard Fleming Bishop of Lincoln
Book SynopsisThis volume completes the edition of the register of Bishop Fleming. The general memoranda include licences and dispensations familiar in such registers: letters dimissory permitting clerks to seek ordination in other dioceses; licences to clergy to celebrate anniversaries, to preach or to be non-resident, usually for the purpose of study; licences for oratories in private chapels; licences to hear confessions. Some clergy are reprimanded: the vicar of North Mimms is deprived for non-residence; a chaplain of Dingley is reported to have buried a suicide in consecrated ground. Wills and other probate documents are transcribed in full. There are commissions appointing vicars-general when the bishop was absent overseas. On four occasions the bishop ordered special prayers to be said in all archdeaconries: for the king and his army at war overseas, for the soul of King Henry V, for the soul of the bishop's sister and for the bishop's journey overseas on the king's business.
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