Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500)

Ronald J. Stansbury, Ph.D. (2001) in Medieval History, The Ohio State University, is Associate Professor of European History at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York. His primary area of research is in medieval popular religion.

"This volume has much to offer. [...] the individual essays in this collection will surely enrich our understanding of medieval pastoral care, the transmission of religious knowledge, and the nature of lay-clerical interactions." Adam Davis, Denison University. In: The Medieval Review, 11.03.20."des analyses pointues de dossiers d’archives (notamment pour les conflits opposant les fidèles à leur curé), de textes extrêmement variés, de traités théologiques les plus savants aux recueils d’exempla en vernaculaire, permettent de repérer des manières locales et évolutives de s’approprier les pastoralia, de les enseigner, les recevoir et mettre en pratique leurs conseils touchant autant aux dogmes et croyances qu’aux pratiques et gestes de piété."Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu, in Revue d'Histoire Eccléstastique 2012, pp. 466-468.

• General Introduction – Ronald J. Stansbury1. Historiography and the work of Lenoard Boyle – Joseph GoeringPASTORAL CARE AND THE LAITY2. Teaching the Creed and Articles of Faith in England: 1215-1281 – Andrew Reeves3. Preaching and Pastoral Care in the Thirteenth Century – Ronald J. Stansbury4. The Sheep as Shepherds: Lay Leadership in Pastoral Care – William Dohar5. The Role of Ritual Purity in the 13th Century Attempt to Reform Pastoral Care – C. Colt Anderson6. Implicit Anti-Semitism in Explicit Pastoral Care: The Role of the Eucharist in Spreading Common Stereotypes – Timothy M. Kovalcik7. Conflict in the Parish: Antagonistic Relations Between Clerics and Parishioners – Michelle Armstrong-Partida8. Guido of Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum and Sermonic Intention – Anne Thayer9. Three’s a Crowd: Women, Men, and Priests in the Late Medieval Confessional – Beth Allison Barr10. Grazing in Many Fields and Drinking Bitter Waters: Robert Grosseteste’s Theology of the Pastoral Care – James R. GintherPASTORAL CARE IN MALE AND FEMALE RELIGIOUS LIFE11. “‘Pure religion and undefiled… is this’: Religious Orders and Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages – Greg Peters12. Spiritual Role Models: How Monks Thought Nuns Should Interpret the Old Testament – Laura Michele Diener 13. Crux a cruciatu dicitur: Preaching Self-Torture as Pastoral Care in Twelfth-Century Religious Houses.” – C. Matthew Phillips 14. An Illiterate Pope and his Book: Pope Celestine V and Pastoral Care – George Ferzoco15. The Informiringheboeck (1510): Spiritual Guidelines for Religious Women – Sabrina Corbellini 16. Practical Pastoral Care: Vowesses in Northern England in the Later Middle Ages – Susan M. B. Steuer17. ‘Persevere! … God Will Help You!’: Thomas a Kempis’s Sermons for the Novices – Mathilde van Dijk Bibliography of all Works Cited (Primary and Secondary Sources)Index