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> Hello, everyone: does anyone out there know of any good studies of
> Reginald Pecock's thought, specifically directed to his philosophical
> or theological writing? I've looked at Wendy Scase's recent essay and
> bibliography in Authors of the Middle Ages Vol.III, no.8, and was
> a bit surprised to find not very much on the content of the man's thought.
> I'm particularly interested in his contention that human reason should
> serve as an authority equal to that of the church, as well as in his
> translation of scholastic dialectical reasoning about language into the
> vernacular. I'm just beginning to read him, and would appreciate some
> advice from anyone who has already tested these water. Thanks. Steve Lahey
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I'm pleased to see renewed interest in Peacock for, as you
suggest, there's much to be done in examining his thought. I
haven't seen Scase's bibliography, but the major studies are
by C.W. Brockwell, _Bp Reginald Peacock and the Lancastrian
church_ (1985), and R.M. Haines, "Reg. Peacock: a tolerant man
in an intolerant age" SCH 21 (1984) 125-37. Also of interest
are W. Pronger's articles on Thomas Gascoigne, an outspoken
foe of Peacock. In the context of broader studies, see
Hudson's _Premature Reformation_ and Swanson's _Church &
Society in Late Medieval England_.
Although I haven't done much on Peacock besides reviewing this
literature, I'm very much interested in the boundaries between
heresy and orthodox reform in early 15th-cent. England; Anne
Hudson astutely points out the existence of a substantial
"grey area" between the orthodox and heretical realms. I've done
some work on this in the 1410s and `20s at Oxford.
Chris Nighman
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