Diane Cady, The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England. (The New Middle Ages.) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. ix, 189; 1 black-and-white figure. €72.79. ISBN: 978-3-0302-6260-0.

Speculum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1141-1142
Author(s):  
Craig E. Bertolet
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Middle English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Middle English Literature ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Late Medieval England

Monastic Apostasy in late Medieval England

1981 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Harper-Bill
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
Late Medieval England

References to apostates from the monastic life appear frequently in ecclesiastical and governmental records of the later Middle Ages, yet little attempt has been made to examine motives for flight or the measures which were adopted to recapture the fugitives. The problem of apostasy regularly attracted the attention of the legislators of the Orders, bishops were anxious both to restrain the culprits and to mitigate the severity of vengeful superiors, and the crown lent the weight of the secular arm to attempts at coercion, although an appeal to Rome might often avert the worst consequences of flight. The ecclesiastical authorities were, of course, concerned that no religious should prejudice his hopes of salvation by the rejection of his profession. Those who without the licence of their superior emigrated to another Order, accepted a secular benefice, or wandered off in search of carnal pleasure or spiritual benefits must be restrained, and those sinners and criminals who sought to evade the jurisdiction of their superiors must be punished. Most serious, however, were those cases in which apostasy was a symptom of dissension within the community and polarisation into factions, and where the fugitive sought from outside the walls to disrupt the life of the cloister until he might return to dominate his monastery.

scholarly journals Reseña de Edurne Garrido-Anes (2020) A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans, Middle English Texts Series, 59. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, pp. 209. ISBN 978-3-8253-4766-6

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
María José Esteve-Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
English Version ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Library ◽  
Late Medieval England ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Medical and scientific manuscripts have been the interest of scholarly attention in recent decades and as a natural consequence, editions of unstudied material have flourished (Alonso-Almeida, 2014 or Marqués-Aguado, T. et alii, 2008, among others). This book is a Middle English edition of one of the most popular works circulating in the late medieval England, known as Circa Instans. This book presents a revised edition of the text found in CUL MS Es 1.13. ff 1r-91v, housed in the Cambridge University Library.

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