Popular Belief and Practice: Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society

by Edited by G. J. Cuming , Derek Baker

• ISBN13: 9780521100007
• ISBN10: 0521100003
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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

Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians

Popular religion and christological controversy in the fifth

The Merovingian monastery of St Evroul in the light of conflicting traditions

Vir Dei: secular sanctity in the early tenth century

A critique of popular religion: Guibert of Nogent on The Relics of the Saints

The making of a twelfth-century relic collection

Innocent III's treatment of the Humiliati

Piety and impiety in thirteenth-century Italy

Some popular prophecies from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries

Belief and practice as illustrated by

Bacon and eggs: bishop Buckingham and superstition in Lincolnshire

`Wilde wittes and wilfulnes': John Swetstock's attack on those 'poyswunmongeres', the Lollards

Protestant spirituality in the first age of the Reformation

Some thoughts on the development of a lay religious consciousness in pre-Civil-War England

The social teaching of archbishop

The puritan piety of members of the Long Parliament

He-goats before the Flocks': a note on the part played by women in the founding of some Civil War churches

The social status of some seventeenth-century rural Dissenters

Methodism and the mob in the eighteenth century

Evangelicalism and worldliness, 1770ndash;1870

The religion of the people and the problem of control, 1790ndash;1830 (Presidential Address)

Papists, Protestants and the Irish in London, 1835ndash;70

The Churches and society in nineteenth-century England: a rural perspective

Pratique, piece et foi populaire dins la France moderne au XIXeacute;me et XXeacute;me sieacute;cles

The Welsh revival of 1904ndash;5: a critique

Puritanicalism, sport, and race: a symbolic crusade of 1911

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