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Law, laity and solidarities : Essays in honour of Susan Reynolds - Pauline Stafford

Law, laity and solidarities

Essays in honour of Susan Reynolds

By: Pauline Stafford (Editor), Janet L. Nelson (Editor), Jane Martindale (Editor)

Paperback | 13 December 2001

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The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attitudes as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities, and they question straightforward narratives of the Middle Ages, as a period of progress from irrational to rational, from primitive to complex and sophisticated or as a time of lay action and clerical thought. They highlight the centrality of kinship, whilst stressing its limitations as an all purpose social bond. The essays range chronologically and geographically from the 7th century to the eve of the Reformation, from Western Britain to papal and urban Italy, from Carolingian dynastic politics to the decline of medieval pilgrimage in the 16th century, and from the courts of twelfth-century France to the 15th-century wards of London.

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