Pragmatic utopias : ideals and communities, 1200-1630 / edited by Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horrox, Rosemary, editor.

Rees Jones, Sarah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian sociology--England--History.

Christian sociology.

England--Church history.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays was presented to Barrie Dobson in celebration of his 70th birthday. It will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society. Spanning the artificial divide between medieval and early modern, the contributors - all acknowledged experts in their field - pursue the ways in which men and women tried to put their ideals into practice, sometimes alone, but more commonly in the shared environment of cloister, college or city. The range of topics is testimony to the breadth of Barrie Dobson's own interests, but even more striking are the continuities and shared assumptions across time, and between the dissident and the impeccably orthodox. Taking the reader from a rural anchor-hold to the London of Thomas More, and from the greenwood of Robin Hood to the central law courts, this collection builds into a richly satisfying exploration of the search for perfection in an imperfect world.

Contents:

If heaven be on this earth, it is in cloister or in school : the monastic ideal in later medieval English literature / Derek Pearsall

Chariot of Aminadab and the Yorkshire priory of Swine / Janet Burton

Godliness and good learning : ideals and imagination in medieval university and college foundations / R.N. Swanson

Hugh of Balsham, bishop of Ely 1256/7-1286 / Roger Lovatt

Cruel necessity? Christ's and St John's, two Cambridge refoundations / Malcolm G. Underwood

Coventry's Lollard programme of 1492 and the making of Utopia / P.J.P. Goldberg

Thomas More's Utopia and medieval London / Sarah Rees Jones

Social exclusivity or justice for all? Access to justice in in fourteenth-century England / Anthony Musson

Idealising criminality : Robin Hood in the fifteenth century / A.J. Pollard

Fat Christian and Old Peter : ideals and compromises among the medieval Waldensians / Peter Biller

Imageless devotion : what kind of an ideal? / Margaret Aston

English anchorite : the making, unmaking and remaking of Christine Carpenter / Miri Rubin

Victorian values in fifteenth-century England : the Ewelme almshouse statutes / Colin Richmond

Puritanism and the poor / Patrick Collinson

Realising a utopian dream : the transformation of the clergy in the diocese of York, 1500-1630 / Claire Cross.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

"Bibliography of Barrie Dobson's published works"--P. 277-280.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11688-0

1-280-15383-0

0-511-11754-X

0-511-04044-X

0-511-15497-6

0-511-32856-7

0-511-49561-7

0-511-05211-1

OCLC:

559651379