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Fitzgibbons, Moira K.

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Knowing believers: Pastoralia, the laity, and interpretive Christianity (Robert Mannyng, John Thoresby, John de Gaytryge).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Knowing believers: Pastoralia, the laity, and interpretive Christianity (Robert Mannyng, John Thoresby, John de Gaytryge)./
Author:	Fitzgibbons, Moira K.
Description:	255 p.
Notes:	Director: Susan Crane.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3034257
ISBN:	0493470921

Knowing believers: Pastoralia, the laity, and interpretive Christianity (Robert Mannyng, John Thoresby, John de Gaytryge).
Fitzgibbons, Moira K.

Knowing believers: Pastoralia, the laity, and interpretive Christianity (Robert Mannyng, John Thoresby, John de Gaytryge). - 255 p.

Director: Susan Crane.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2001.

This dissertation contends that by commissioning vernacular works of religious instruction, or pastoralia, English ecclesiastical leaders of the later Middle Ages unwittingly diminished clerics' preeminence over lay people. Although recent years have brought a surge of scholarly interest in the social and literary implications of vernacular religious works, there remains a tendency to regard the complexities operating within pastoralia as deviations from these texts' educational functions. I argue instead that the very project of instructing lay people in the vernacular about religious doctrine undermines clerics' privileged status as the indispensable mediators between God and the laity.

ISBN: 0493470921Subjects--Topical Terms:

571675
Literature, Medieval.

Knowing believers: Pastoralia, the laity, and interpretive Christianity (Robert Mannyng, John Thoresby, John de Gaytryge).
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520 $a This dissertation contends that by commissioning vernacular works of religious instruction, or pastoralia, English ecclesiastical leaders of the later Middle Ages unwittingly diminished clerics' preeminence over lay people. Although recent years have brought a surge of scholarly interest in the social and literary implications of vernacular religious works, there remains a tendency to regard the complexities operating within pastoralia as deviations from these texts' educational functions. I argue instead that the very project of instructing lay people in the vernacular about religious doctrine undermines clerics' privileged status as the indispensable mediators between God and the laity.
520 $a After an introductory chapter surveying the dissemination of the Fourth Lateran Council's mandates in England, my dissertation investigates the interpretive form of Christian belief offered to lay people in three pastoral texts of the later Middle Ages. Chapter Two explores how <italic>Handlyng Synne</italic>, Robert Mannyng's 1303 translation of the Anglo-Norman <italic>Manuel des Pechiez </italic>, uses the practice of examining one's conscience as a template for broader kinds of analysis. Interpretive leeway for lay people also emerges as an issue within <italic>The Lay Folks' Catechism</italic> (1357), the focus of Chapter Three. Commissioned by Archbishop John Thoresby to translate his Latin <italic>Constitutions</italic> into English, the monk John de Gaytryge makes subtle but significant changes to his source. For Gaytryge, Christian principles function as routes to a personal form of spirituality. The controversial aspects of vernacular religious writing loom even larger in <italic>Dives and Pauper</italic>, the subject of Chapter Four. Written between 1405 and 1410 by an unnamed friar, the work vigorously resists the increasing hostility to English religious writings expressed by ecclesiastical authorities.
520 $a The dissertation's final chapter examines John Mirk's <italic>Festial </italic> and the anonymous <italic>Jacob's Well</italic>, two late medieval works which actively—and, to a large extent, successfully—attempt to suppress the subversive implications of vernacular pastoralia. Through the very vociferousness with which they disavow lay autonomy, these writers show that they too recognize the potential for change opened up by teaching precepts in the vernacular.
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