I've been waiting for Gerallt to chip in on this one but he's clearly busy!
It's something we have had to look at very closely on the St Teilo's project - how would the Mass, other forms of public devotion and personal use/experience of the church actually work in a small and relatively underfunded prish church in south Wales. The book which Gerallt has recently edited, Saving St Teilo's (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 2009) includes a very basic introduction on medieval worship and its social context - well reviewed on Vidimus at http://www.vidimus.org/booksWebsites.html#d0e2498
For more detail, and available on the web:
as well as our own Helen Watt and Rosemary C. E. Hayes The Records of Central Government Taxation in England and Wales: Clerical Taxes 1173-1664 : Introducing a newly-accessible source for the history of the Welsh Medieval Church’.
[PDF download, 2MB]
During the research we kept coming back to Eamon Duffy - both Stripping of the Altars and The Voices of Morebath. For a counter-perspective you could try
Graves, C. P. (2000) The form and fabric of belief. An archaeology of the lay experience of religion in medieval Norfolk and Devon. BAR British Series 311. ISBN 1 84171 161 6.
- which is very detailed and argues against Duffy that the privatisation of space and visibility was an important element in the experience of late medieval worship.
Maddy
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dee Dyas wrote:
>Steve, can't help you right now but sometime around the >middle of next = >year our new CD-ROM on the 'Story of the Church in England'
Please-- will this mouthwatering production work on Macs as well as on PCs?
Pat |
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