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Not exactly for children: Michael Jecks, Boy Bishop's Glove Maker. I
read Jecks only occasionally but really liked that one.
Tom Izbicki
Sini Kangas wrote:
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> Dear Madeleine,
>
> This is only academic information, I'm afraid, but Nicholas Orme
> refers to the boy-bishop's festival in his "Medieval Children", pp.
> 188-189 and 232-233. His examples come from late medieval Exeter,
> London, and Salisbury, as well as the Sarum rite (Registrum Statutorum
> et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londinensis,
> Simpson ed.; Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, G. Oliver; Breviarum ad
> usum Sarum, Procter ed.; The Hereford Breviary, Frere and Brown ed,;
> Ordinale Exon, Dalton ed.).
>
> I think I saw similar references also in Sulamith Shahar's "Childhood
> in the Middle Ages".
>
> As for a great story of boys acting as religious leaders, if not
> bishops, Alberic of Troisfointaine's half-fictional version of the
> "Children's crusade" is an interesting text.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sini
>
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> Lainaus "Madeleine Gray" <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>> culture
>>
>> Another non-academic query. Does anyone know of a children's novel or
>> story involving boy bishops? (A friend of mine is looking at responses
>> to Christmas customs.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Maddy
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr Madeleine Gray
>>
>> Reader in History
>>
>> School of Education/Ysgol Addysg
>>
>> University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
>>
>> Caerleon Campus/Campws Caerllion,Newport/Casnewydd NP18 3QT,
>> Wales/Cymru
>>
>> Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
>>
>>
>> 'I ask you for help. And all you give me is ...papers!'
>> (Magda in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul)
>>
>>
>>
>> History at University of Wales, Newport: http://timezone.newport.ac.uk
>> <http://timezone.newport.ac.uk>
>> Gwent County History Association website:
>> http://gwent-county-history-association.newport.ac.uk
>> <http://gwent-county-history-association.newport.ac.uk>
>> Cistercian Way: http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk
>> <http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk>
>>
>>
>>
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