Pastoral Care in Medieval England

Dr Sarah James is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Kent. Her major field of interest is medieval hagiography from c.1100-1500, including both the Latin west and more recently Byzantium in her research. She is also absorbed by the development of theology as an academic discipline, and particularly the ways in which academic theological positions are mediated in order to promote pastoral care. She has written on theologies of vision, pleasure and the Eucharist, and also on the vernacular theological writings of Bishop Reginal Pecock and the Austin Friar John Capgrave.Peter D. Clarke is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Southampton. He specializes in the history of the Western Church from c. 1100 down to the Reformation. His research interests focus on Western canon law and its application in this period and on the later medieval papacy and its impact at a local level. His recent publications have included a three-volume edition (with Patrick Zutshi) of petitions from England and Wales to the papal penitentiary (1410-1503) and a monograph on the Ecclesiastical Interdict in the Thirteenth Century.

• List of ContributorsAbbreviationsIntroduction, by Peter D. Clarke Reform and dedication of churches in eleventh-century Exeter by Erika Corradini Old English Confessional Prayers for the Clergy and the Laity by Catherine Cubitt Making books for pastoral care in late eleventh-century Worcester: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius MS 121 and Hatton MSS 113 + 114 by Helen Foxhall Forbes What to Ask in Confession: A List of Sins from Thirteenth-Century England by Catherine Rider Songs and Sermons in Thirteenth-Century England by Helen Deeming Pastoral Care, Pastoral Cares, Pastoral Carers: Configuring the Cura pastoralis in Pre-Reformation England by Robert Swanson Enforcing Religious Conformity in Late Medieval England:Lateran IV canon 21 and the church courts by Peter D. Clarke Robert Mannyng and the Imagined Reading Communities for Handlyng Synne by Ryan Perry Unclean priests and the body of Christ: the Elucidarium and pastoral care in fifteenth-century England by Sarah James The priest and the patronage of stained glass in late medieval Norfolk by Claire DauntonIndex