Popular belief and practice : papers read at the ninth summer meeting and the tenth winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society

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Popular belief and practice : papers read at the ninth summer meeting and the tenth winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society

edited by G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker

(Studies in church history, 8)

University Press, 1972

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This eighth volume of Studies in Church History contains twenty-six papers read at two recent meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Popular religion, in theory and practice, within established religious forms and outside them, against a background of acceptance or of controversy, is examined in studies ranging from Professor Momigliano's analysis of the attitude of the later Roman historians to Professor Latreille's discussion of popular piety in modern France. A number of papers focus on the attitudes to sanctity and relics in the central Middle Ages. There is also a significant and wide-ranging discussion centred on the theme of the Presidential Address: post-Reformation popular religion both in its local and general setting. These contributions clearly demonstrate the significance of current research into social and economic influences upon popular faith, practice and allegiance, and indicate the large areas and difficult problems which require further research.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians Arnaldo Momigliano
  • 2. Popular religion and christological controversy in the fifth W. H. C. Frend
  • 3. The Merovingian monastery of St Evroul in the light of conflicting traditions Marjorie Chibnall
  • 4. Vir Dei: secular sanctity in the early tenth century Derek Baker
  • 5. A critique of popular religion: Guibert of Nogent on The Relics of the Saints Colin Morris
  • 6. The making of a twelfth-century relic collection Denis Bethell
  • 7. Innocent III's treatment of the Humiliati Brenda Bolton
  • 8. Piety and impiety in thirteenth-century Italy Alexander Murray
  • 9. Some popular prophecies from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries Marjorie E. Reeves
  • 10. Belief and practice as illustrated by John XXII's excommunication of Robert Bruce Rosalind M. T. Hill
  • 11. Bacon and eggs: bishop Buckingham and superstition in Lincolnshire Dorothy M. Owen
  • 12. `Wilde wittes and wilfulnes': John Swetstock's attack on those 'poyswunmongeres', the Lollards Roy M. Haines
  • 13. Protestant spirituality in the first age of the Reformation Gordon Rupp
  • 14. Some thoughts on the development of a lay religious consciousness in pre-Civil-War England Marc L. Schwarz
  • 15. The social teaching of archbishop John Williams R. Buick Knox
  • 16. The puritan piety of members of the Long Parliament G. S. S. Yule (in absentia)
  • 17. He-goats before the Flocks': a note on the part played by women in the founding of some Civil War churches Claire Cross
  • 18. The social status of some seventeenth-century rural Dissenters Margaret Spufford
  • 19. Methodism and the mob in the eighteenth century John Walsh
  • 20. Evangelicalism and worldliness, 1770-1870 Michael Hennell
  • 21. The religion of the people and the problem of control, 1790-1830 (Presidential Address) W. R. Ward
  • 22. Papists, Protestants and the Irish in London, 1835-70 Sheridan Gilley
  • 23. The Churches and society in nineteenth-century England: a rural perspective David M. Thompson
  • 24. Pratique, piece et foi populaire dins la France moderne au XIXeme et XXeme siecles A. Latreille (in absentia)
  • 25. The Welsh revival of 1904-5: a critique Basil Hall
  • 26. Puritanicalism, sport, and race: a symbolic crusade of 1911 Stuart Mews.

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