Christian Culture and Society in Later Catholic England

Travis R. Baker, Ph.D. (2017), University of Oxford, is a part-time private scholar living in the Diocese of Orange. He is the editor of Law and Society in Later Medieval England (Routledge, 2018) and Anne Duggan’s Popes, Bishops, and the Progress of Canon Law, c.1120-1234 (Brepols, 2020).

Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Figures and Tables


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors


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Diana Greenway



Introduction Christian Culture and Society in Later Catholic England

  Travis R. Baker



Part 1

Aspects of Secular and Ecclesiastical Legal Culture

1 Cherchez le seigneur Et la femme?

  Charles Donahue Jr



2 Holding the Ordinary to Account The Actions of quare non admisit and quare incumbravit to c. 1307

  Paul Brand



3 Continuities and Seasonality in the York Consistory Court, 1300–1500

  Frederik Pedersen



4 The Court of Arches and Doctors’ Commons A Diocesan Perspective

  R.H. Helmholz



5 “Liber de practica advocatorum, non utilior in Anglia” A Canonist’s Compilation from the Fourteenth-Century Court of Arches

  R.N. Swanson



6 The Importance of Employing the Right Team of Representatives at the Fourteenth-Century Papal Curia The Lawsuit between St Augustine’s Canterbury and the Archbishops of Canterbury (1329–1336)

  Barbara Bombi



7 Proctors Acting for English Petitioners in the Papal Court during the Great Schism

  Patrick Zutshi



8 A Note on the Henrician Canons and the Bonifacian Code

  Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano



9 The Deposition Trial of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, 1549

  Henry Ansgar Kelly



Part 2

Aspects of Mendicant and Monastic Culture

10 Becket’s Escape from Northampton The Role of the Gilbertines

  Anne J. Duggan



11 The Franciscans in the Diocese of Ely during the Fourteenth Century

  Michael J.P. Robson



12 Pastoral Manuals and ‘Anti-fraternalism’ in Fourteenth-Century England

  Michael Haren



13 The Topographical Evolution of English Mendicant Convents in the Age of the Black Death

  Jens Röhrkasten



14 The Abbots of the Cistercian House of Meaux (Yorkshire), 1150 to 1399: A Study in Careers

  Janet Burton



15 The Identity and Career of William Worstede, Prior of Norwich, 1427–36

  Joan Greatrex



16 The Last Novices of Henrician England

  James G. Clark



Part 3

Aspects of Clerical Culture

17 ‘My Right Trusty Chapeleyn and Seruaunt Domestycall’ The Relationship between Household Chaplains and Their Patrons in Late Medieval England

  Virginia Davis



18 ‘A Wife and a Seal May Be Deemed Equal’ The Theory and Practice of Sealing of Bishops and Lay Christians in Thirteenth-and Fourteenth-Century England

  Philippa Hoskin



19 Living and Dying at the Time of Archbishop Simon Sudbury 1375 to 1381

  Jane Sayers



20 Fear and Loathing in Fourteenth-Century Rutland The Segregation of the Rector of Seaton

  Nicholas Bennett



Part 4

English Laymen and the Papacy

21 Londoners and the Papacy in the Fifteenth Century

  Caroline Barron



22 Further Thoughts on the Irish Remonstrance of 1317 A Note, Prompted by Archivio Segreto Vaticano, a.a., Arm. i–xviii, 4071

  Seymour Phillips



Bibliography of the Published Works of F. Donald Logan


Index