Catholic England

Introduction: in search of pre-Reformation English spirituality. Part 1 Theory: the Bible - the Latin Bible, the Wycliffite Bible, a modern version; disseminating the faith - priestly instruction, John Drury's instructions, sermons, a sermon from John Mirk's "Festial", a sermon from the Lollard sermon cycle, a sermon; the mass - preparation for the mass, behaviour during mass - the lay folks' mass book; designs for living and dying - "The Abbey of the Holy Ghost", "Epistle of the Mixed Life", Walter Hilton, "The Book of the Craft of Dying". Part 2 Practice: parish celebrations - the parish accounts of Scarborough, 12-13 Henry VI, parish accounts of Yarmouth, parish accounts of Kings Lynn; private religion - licences for private chapels, vows of chastity; saints, shrines, miracles, and pilgrimage - shrines - the shrines in York Minster, offerings at Hereford cathedral, offerings at Ely cathedral, offerings made on behalf of Queen Elizabeth of York, miracles - miracles of St Osmund, miracles of Henry VI; security for the living - indulgences - proctors for a bridge, proctors for a bridge, proctor for St Anthony's hospital, days of indulgence at the chapel of St Anne, Bristol, profits of indulgence for the hospital of St Anthony; guilds and fraternities - mendicant confraternity, regulations of a trade fraternity - the carpenters of York, payment for membership of the Palmers' guild at Ludlow, receipts for payments of membership of the Palmers' guild at Ludlow, nationwide distribution of the Palmer's guild of Ludlow, benefits of membership of the confraternity of St Chad, Lichfield; security for the dead - obits and anniversaries - guild trentals in a mendicant house, the obit of William Paston, an anniversary in St George's chapel, Windsor, chantries and almshouses. a chantry in a Dominican house at Bristol, a chantry by feoffment to uses, Hosyer's chantry, Ludlow; distributions at death - wills, Thomas Kebell, Lady Jane Strangeways, Sir John Port; complaint and opposition - anticlericalism? - complaints against the vicar of Saltash, complaints at visitation, heresy and Lollardy, the Bishop of Norwich's mandate for heresy detection at Bury, 1428, questions to identify heretics, Lollard confessions.