The English Church in the Fourteenth Century: Based on the Birkbeck Lectures, 1948

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
Contents......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
I - INTRODUCTION: THE LEGACY OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY......Page 18
PART I - CHURCH AND STATE......Page 24
The bishops......Page 26
civil servants......Page 28
scholars......Page 31
religious......Page 35
officials of the Roman Curia......Page 38
diocesan administrators and cathedral clergy; aristocrats......Page 39
The greater benefices in cathedral and collegiate churches......Page 43
The parish clergy......Page 44
Patronage exercised by the Crown......Page 47
by the magnates......Page 49
Indirect patronage......Page 51
Exploitation of benefices......Page 52
Pluralism......Page 53
Effects of the system......Page 58
IV - PAPAL PROVISIONS......Page 64
Procedure......Page 65
Effect of provisions on the episcopate......Page 71
on parish churches......Page 75
on cathedral chapters......Page 76
The classes who benefited......Page 79
The attitude of the laity......Page 82
of the king......Page 83
of the clergy......Page 86
of the chroniclers......Page 88
The first period (1300--1342)......Page 93
The second period (1342--1360)......Page 98
The statutes of Pro visors and Praemunire......Page 101
The third period (1360--1399)......Page 104
The significance of the struggle between Crown and Papacy......Page 110
Conclusion......Page 114
PART II - INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND CONTROVERSY......Page 120
The universities......Page 122
The geographical distribution of higher studies......Page 126
The cathedral schools......Page 127
The friars......Page 136
The Roman Curia......Page 137
Apostolic poverty......Page 140
Seculars and mendicants......Page 141
Church endowment......Page 143
The rights of the State......Page 144
Dominion......Page 146
Monastic life......Page 147
The Immaculate Conception......Page 148
Anti-intellectualism......Page 149
The Mertonians......Page 153
The friars......Page 157
Richard FitzRalph......Page 168
Two monastic writers: Utlired of Boldon and Adam Easton......Page 182
Thomas Brunton, monk of Norwich and Bishop of Rochester......Page 199
PART III - RELIGIOUS LITERATURE......Page 204
IX - MANUALS OF INSTRUCTION FOR PARISH PRIESTS......Page 206
The Oculus sacerdotis......Page 212
The Cilium oculi......Page 219
The Regimen animarum......Page 220
The Memoriale preshiterorum......Page 222
Archbishop Thoresby\'s Instructions......Page 228
The Pupilla oculi......Page 230
Mirk\'s Instructions for parish priests......Page 231
Mirk\'s Manuale sacerdotis......Page 232
Mirk\'s Festiall......Page 234
Appendix to Chapter IX: some thirteenth-century Summae......Page 236
X - RELIGIOUS AND MORAL TREATISES IN THE VERNACULAR......Page 237
Group I: St Edmund\'s Mirror......Page 239
Group II: the Manuel des péchés and Handling Sin......Page 241
Group III: the Somme le Roi and the Azenbite of lnwit......Page 242
Group IV: the Speculum Vitae......Page 244
Group V: miscellaneous......Page 247
The Livre de Seyntz Medicines......Page 248
Preaching......Page 252
Wall paintings......Page 256
Religious drama......Page 259
The English mystics......Page 261
The relation of mystical literature to the literature of religious instruction......Page 265
Some characteristics of the English mystics......Page 268
The devout layman......Page 270
Margery Kempe......Page 273
Conclusion......Page 278
Appendix I - The Latin text of passages quoted from manuscript sources......Page 280
Appendix II - Two collections of didactic treatises......Page 294
Index......Page 298