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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Madeleine Gray wrote: > Do we have any evidence, at all, about medieval perspectives on this? I ask > because I've just received my copy of Harper, Barnwell and Williamson's Late > Medieval Liturgies Enacted, based on the 'Experience of Worship' project at > Salisbury and St Fagan's in 2011. I was a member of the congregation for the > St Fagan's enactments and one of my roles was that of a pilgrim. It occurs to > me that even small parish churches like St Teilo's (the church rebuilt at the > museum at St Fagan's) would have had frequent visitors if they were on > pilgrimage routes (as St Teilo's was), and churches in major trading towns > would of course have had a lot more. What do we know from eg homiletic > literature about how people were expected to respond (and by implication from > criticism how they did respond)? > Probably not too dissimilar to the 19th century view: "Who's 'im, Bill?" "A stranger!" " 'eave 'alf a brick at 'im." John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion