Dear all,
I've found Rosalind and Christopher Brooke's Popular Religion in the
Middle Ages: Western Europe 1000-1300 (1984) and R.N. Swanson's
Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 (1995) useful for
students, particularly those with little general knowledge on
Christianity. Perhaps some of the sources cited in these volumes?
>From personal research experience, the exempla of James of Vitry,
Stephen of Bourbon and Caesarius of Heisterbach are invaluable for
monastic and clergy's attempts to represent and combat popular
religion or 'superstition'. Editions for these are problematic.
Thomas Crane's edition of James' exempla can be used for students with
little Latin large due to the handy English summaries of the exempla
in the back, but Lecoy de la Marche's very partial edition of
Bourbon's treatise has yet to be replaced (isn't Berloiz working on
one?). There exists also an English translation of Caesarius'
Dialogue of Miracles which is quite scarce (I don't have the
information on it to hand, but will look it up), as well as the
out-of-print edition of Strange. Hilka has done excerpts of exempla
from Caesarius' homily collections.
[Sorry for the lack of detail, as this was written from the computer
lab]
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