Welcome John!
Does your work happen to offer a translation of any part
of the 13th-century Exeter Bishop Quinil/Quivil's _Constitutiones_
and _Summula_? If it does, I should like to refer to it in my work for
The Index of Middle English Prose. Our library does not, alas, have your
books, so perhaps you could post full bibliographical details?
I am working on English parish life (in one particular parish) in the late
15th century, having found a hitherto unnoticed itinerary of a priest
visiting 48 tenements over two weeks to hear confessions (ad peccata
confitenda). In a small, deeply rural Devonian parish with a fine church
dating from the 12th-century this takes some explaining. I think, but
cannot prove, that it may be connected with the presence of large numbers
of itinerant workers employed in the Royal Silver Mines, operating from 12th
century. Have you perhaps come across anything similar? Has anyone else?
Avril
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Professor Avril Henry
School of English & American Studies
Queen's Building
Queen's Drive
University of Exeter
EXETER
Devon
UK
EX4 4QH
Tel: 01392-264252
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