The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England. By Marilyn Oliva. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 12. Woodbridge, England: Boydell, 1998. xiv + 271 pp. $90.00 cloth.

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Sharon K. Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Medieval England ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Medieval England

Conclusion

Law in Common ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Tom Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Late Medieval England

The conclusion briefly summarizes the arguments of the book, before going on to consider their implications for how the social and political history of late-medieval England is to be understood as a more cohesive narrative of transformation. Specifically, it suggests that the legal structures—both local legal cultures and common legalities—discussed in the book can be understood as a part of a ‘common constitution’ that emerged in post-plague society, binding people together in a shared understanding of governance, making possible the kinds of expansive claim made by late-medieval government. In this way, the conclusion gestures towards a way of writing political history of the everyday.

scholarly journals Civic Minstrels in Late Medieval England: New Light on Duties and Careers

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 183-218
Author(s):  
Richard Rastall
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Medieval England ◽  
Early English ◽  
First Time ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Special Duties

AbstractThe publications of the ongoing Records of Early English Drama project since 1979 have made available for the first time much early documentation about minstrels, including the civic minstrels or town waits. While this material leaves many questions unanswered, a more detailed picture of the early history of civic minstrels is emerging. This article focusses on three aspects of that history that have not previously been studied as such: the towns that employed civic minstrels by 1509, the minstrels’ possible special duties in ports, and their employment mobility.

scholarly journals Irish clergy in late medieval England

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (126) ◽  
pp. 145-160
Author(s):  
Virginia Davis
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Geographic Origins ◽  
History Of ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Late Medieval England

This article examines a hitherto unexplored source for the history of the Irish clergy in England — English episcopal ordination lists — to see what they can reveal about Irish clergy in medieval England: their geographic origins, their numbers and, less tangibly, their motivation both for coming to England and for remaining there.Episcopal ordination lists survive, with gaps, for most English dioceses from the later thirteenth century onwards and are the formal records of the diocesan ordination ceremonies held quarterly by bishops or their suffragans, at which men wishing to be ordained to the priesthood were ordained successively to the orders of acolyte, subdeacon, deacon and priest. The ordination lists can add substantially to our knowledge of the vast mass of the medieval clergy, especially the unbeneficed, who frequently remain almost hidden from the historian. Episcopal ordination lists detail information such as the date and place of ordination, the ordinand’s diocese of origin, and occasionally a more precise place of origin and educational qualifications. If the candidate for ordination belonged to a religious order, usually this order and the actual house to which he was attached are listed. Thus these lists can provide a substantial corpus of information, particularly since every member of the clergy ought to be included in the ordination lists as they climbed the ranks of the clerical hierarchy; the same information should be available for everybody, whether they later became an archbishop or found themselves scratching out a living as an underpaid vicar or an unbeneficed mass priest. Over the last few years the computerisation of this material has produced a database of English medieval clergy drawn from the contents of surviving English episcopal ordination lists.

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