Pastoral Care in Medieval England: Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 18340
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315599649
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472438539
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The scope of Pastoral Care: Interdisciplinary Approaches breaks new ground in addressing this critical aspect of medieval religious culture. Its chronological range, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, is unprecedented for a study of this topic, and provides the opportunity to consider a long narrative of developments in the conceptualisation and delivery of pastoral support from the Norman Conquest to the beginnings of the European reformation. In addition, its interdisciplinary breadth offers new opportunities to bring diverse source materials and methodologies into conversation.
The volume consists of ten newly-commissioned research essays by both established and early career academics working across the disciplines of history, literary studies, art history and musicology. The essays, including discussions of politics, ecclesiology, book history, theology and patronage, reveal unexpected continuities and divergences across time and media, and the volume as a whole exemplifies the enriching effects of interdisciplinary work upon our understanding of a topic that is central to the field.
As co-editor, James had 50% responsibility for the volume’s rationale, organisation and chronological/methodological/theoretical/media coverage, and for writing the book proposal. She commissioned half the individual essays (Cubitt, Foxhall Forbes, Perry, Daunton), and had 50% responsibility for editing and revising all essays in the volume, as well as bibliographical and other additional materials.
James’s single-authored contribution to the volume is an 8000-word essay which compares the exposition of Eucharistic theology in three fifteenth-century English versions of a key text of pastoral guidance (the Elucidarium) alongside the Latin original. The essay demonstrates the unexpected variety of pastoral approaches available in this period, and the extent to which theological anxieties were mediated by clerical authorities for a range of audiences whilst remaining alert to doctrinal integrity.
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