Christopher and others,
I just came across this reference from the Consortium for the Teaching of
the Middle Ages, I(TEAMS) publications list at the Medieval Institute
(Western Michigan University) website. Perhaps it will be useful--please
let us know!
Leah
A SLICE OF LIFE:
Selected Documents of Medieval English Peasant Experience
edited, translated, and with an introduction by Edwin Brezette
DeWindt
A small collection of documents designed to be used by undergraduates who are
interested in exploring the kinds of texts historians use to construct a
picture of
medieval English peasant experience.
"Since the audience for this text is assumed to be primarily students of
medieval history,
nothing from a specifically literary text has been included. Further,
since archaeology
deals in artifacts and other physical remains, it is impractical to
supply material from that
discipline. Therefore, only material from record sources is provided. . .
. [T]hese are the
only written materials that permit some measure of personalized contact
with specific
men and women from the past, so this gives them a special
importance"--from the
Introduction.
Copyright 1996
ISBN 1879288737 (paperbound only) $6.00
pp. viii + 101
At 08:39 AM 10/16/01 -0700, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>thanks, Megan & Leah.
>
>and, if one were to consult Gurevich, Schmitt and McLaughlin, would one indeed
>find any written evidence from the 5th through the, say, 9th century which
>sheds light on this question?
>
>or any other examples of **peasant** piety in this period?
>
>or "any evidence for any real enthusiasm for christianity among the commoner
>lay classes before the 11th century?"
>
>briefly, what is the consensus, and upon what evidence is it based?
>
>enquiring minds want to know.
>
>and they are lazy as hell.
>
>best from here,
>
>christopher
>
>p.s. i obviously mispoke from my Chartresocentric parish when i implied
>previously that charter sources were scarce before the first quarter of the
>11th c.
>
>that is indeed true for the Chartraine, but not for other regions of France,
>most notably, perhaps, Anjou and Burgundy --regions, among many others, about
>which i know next to nothing. though i believe that it may be generally said
>that after 1000, when "Europe really began to hum" (as an old professor of
>mine once said), the surviving charter evidence picks up geometrically.
>
>
>Megan McLaughlin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Not to be too immodest, but I have a chapter on the laity and the
>liturgical community, which might address some of these questions, in my book,
>Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France (Cornell
>UP, 1994)
>
>
>Richard Landes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >in this context, allow me to reiterate my question: what evidence is
>there for any real enthusiasm for christianity among the commoner lay classes
>before the 11th century?
>
>Leah Rutchick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I have not been paying strict attention to this thread, but has anyone yet
>mentioned Aron Gurevich's _Medieval Popular Clture: Problems of
>belief and perception_ ? Its trans. from Russian, and published by
>Cambridge UP, with its first chapter relaying "Popular culture and medieval
>latin literature from Caesarius of Arles to Caesarius of Heisterbach. And
>there is also J-C Schmitt's _The Holy Greyhound_ which is an excellent study
>of Burgundian popular piety vs Papal power in the 11/12th century and later (I
>believe I'm recalling the date correctly).
>
>Leah Rutchick
>
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