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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511495618
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495618
Subjects:
British History 1066-1450, History, Religion, Church History
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Book description

This collection of essays was presented to Barrie Dobson in celebration of his 70th birthday. It will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society. Spanning the artificial divide between medieval and early modern, the contributors - all acknowledged experts in their field - pursue the ways in which men and women tried to put their ideals into practice, sometimes alone, but more commonly in the shared environment of cloister, college or city. The range of topics is testimony to the breadth of Barrie Dobson's own interests, but even more striking are the continuities and shared assumptions across time, and between the dissident and the impeccably orthodox. Taking the reader from a rural anchor-hold to the London of Thomas More, and from the greenwood of Robin Hood to the central law courts, this collection builds into a richly satisfying exploration of the search for perfection in an imperfect world.

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Review of the hardback:‘… an entree to a perhaps unfamiliar but certainly a fascinating world.’

Source: Utopian Studies

Review of the hardback:‘… all these quality papers contain lessons, direct or implied, for historians of southern England.’

Source: Southern History Society

Review of the hardback:‘These essays are of a high standard, and carry many important insights.'

Source: History

Review of the hardback:‘the range of themes on important subjects, and the quality of the contributions, make this book especially welcome. It also serves as a fitting tribute to Professor Dobson’s distinguished career.’

Source: The Ricardian

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Contents
References
Bibliography of Barrie Dobson's published works
Selby Abbey and Town (Leeds, 1969).
The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 (London, 1971, 2nd edn 1983).
‘Mynistres of Saynt Cuthbert’: The Monks of Durham in the Fifteenth Century (Durham Cathedral Lecture, 1972).
Durham Priory, 1400–1450 (Cambridge, 1973).
The World of the Middle Ages (with M. J. Angold) (London, 1974).
The Jews of Medieval York and the Massacre of March 1190 (Borthwick Institute, York, 1974, 2nd edn 1996).
Rymes of Robyn Hood (with J. Taylor) (London, 1976, 2nd edn Stroud, 1989, 3rd edn Stroud, 1997).
Rymes of Robyn Hood(ed.) York City Chamberlains’ Accounts, 1396–1500, Surtees Society 192 (1980).
The History of Clementhorpe Nunnery (with S. Donaghey) (York Archaeological Trust, 1984).
The History of Clementhorpe Nunnery(ed.) The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century (Stroud, 1984).
‘Preserving the Perishable’: Contrasting Communities in Medieval England, inaugural lecture (Cambridge, 1991).
Church and Society in the Medieval North of England (London, 1996).
Church and Society in the Medieval North of England(ed., with Peter Biller) The Medieval Church: Universities, Heresy and the Religious Life: Essays in Honour of Gordon Leff, Studies in Church History, Subsidia 11 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1999).
Church and Society in the Medieval North of England(ed., with Michael Lapidge) English translation of André Vauchez (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 2000).
‘Richard Bell, Prior of Durham (1464–78) and Bishop of Carlisle (1478–95)’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, new series 65 (1965), 182–221.
‘The Foundation of Perpetual Chantries by the Citizens of Medieval York’, Studies in Church History 4 (1967), 22–38.
‘The Last English Monks on Scottish Soil: The Severance of Coldingham Priory from the monastery of Durham, 1461–78’, Scottish Historical Review 46 (1967), 1–25.
‘The Election of John Ousthorp as Abbot of Selby in 1436’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 42 (1968), 31–40.
‘The First Norman Abbey in Northern England: The Origins of Selby’, Ampleforth Journal 74 (1969), 161–76.
‘The Medieval Origins of the Robin Hood Legend: A Reassessment’, Northern History 7 (1972), 1–30 (with J. Taylor).
‘Admissions to the Freedom of the City of York in the Later Middle Ages’, Economic History Review, second series 26 (1973), 1–22.
‘German History, 911–1618’, in M. Pasley (ed.), Germany: A Companion to German Studies (London, 1974; 2nd edn 1982).
‘The Later Middle Ages, 1215–1500’, in G. E. Aylmer and R. Cant (eds.), A History of York Minster (Oxford, 1977), pp. 44–110.
‘Oxford Graduates and the So-Called Patronage Crisis of the Later Middle Ages’, in The Church in a Changing Society, CTHEC Conference in Uppsala (1977), pp. 211–16.
‘Urban Decline in Late Medieval England’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth series 27 (1977), 1–22.
‘The Decline and Expulsion of the Medieval Jews of York’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 26 (1979), 34–52.
‘The Residentiary Canons of York in the Fifteenth Century’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 30 (1979), 145–74.
‘Cathedral Chapters and Cathedral Cities: York, Durham and Carlisle in the Fifteenth Century’, Northern History 19 (1983), 15–44.
‘Robin Hood of Barnesdale: A Fellow Thou Has Long Sought’, Northern History 19 (1983), 210–20 (with J. Taylor).
‘The Risings in York, Beverley and Scarborough, 1380–81’, in R. H. Hilton and T. H. Aston (eds.), The English Rising of 1381 (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 112–42.
‘Mendicant Ideal and Practice in Late Medieval York’, in P. V. Addyman and V. E. Black (eds.), Archaeological Papers from York presented to M. W. Barley (York, 1984), pp. 109–22.
‘The Foundation of Gloucester College, Oxford, in 1283’, Worcester College Record (1985), 12–24.
‘Yorkshire Towns in the Late Fourteenth Century’, Publications of the Thoresby Society 59 (1985), 1–21.
‘Recent Prosopographical Research in Late Medieval English History: University Graduates, Durham Monks and York Canons’, in N. Bulst and J.-P. Genet (eds.), Medieval Lives and the Historian: Studies in Medieval Prosopography (Kalamazoo, Mi, 1986), pp. 181–200.
‘The Bishops of Late Medieval England as Intermediaries between Church and State’, in Etat et église dans la genèse de l’état moderne (Casa de Velásquez, Madrid, 1986), pp. 227–38.
‘Richard Ⅲ and the Church of York’, in R. A. Griffiths and J. Sherborne (eds.), Kings and Nobles in the later Middle Ages (Gloucester, 1986), pp. 130–54.
Introduction to A. R. Myers, Crown, Household and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England (London, 1986), pp. ⅸ–ⅹⅸ.
‘The City of York’, in Boris Ford (ed.), Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain, vol. Ⅰ (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 200–13.
‘Beverley in Conflict: Archbishop Alexander Neville and the Minster Clergy, 1381–88’, in C. Wilson (ed.), Medieval Art and Architecture in the East Riding of Yorkshire (British Archaeological Association, 1989), pp. 149–64.
‘Contrasting Chronicles: Historical Writing at York and Durham in the Later Middle Ages’, in I. Wood and G. Loud (eds.), Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to John Taylor (London, 1991), pp. 201–18.
‘John Taylor: A Tribute’, ibid., pp. ⅺ–ⅹⅹ.
‘English Monastic Cathedrals in the Fifteenth Century’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, sixth series 1 (1991), 151–92.
‘The Historical Role of the Archbishops of York during the Reign of Edward Ⅰ’, Thirteenth-Century England 3 (1991), 47–64.
‘Citizens and Chantries in Late Medieval York’, in D. Abulafia, M. Franklin and M. Rubin (eds.), Church and City, 1000–1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 311–32.
‘The Role of Jewish Women in Medieval England’ (Presidential Address), in D. Wood (ed.), Christianity and Judaism, Studies in Church History 29 (1992), pp. 145–68.
‘Two English Cathedrals: Exeter and York’, in H. Millet and E. Mornet (eds.), I Canonici al Servizio dello Stato in Europa, Secoli ⅫⅠ–ⅩⅥ (Modena, 1992), pp. 15–46 (with D. N. Lepine).
‘The Church of Durham and the Scottish Borders, 1378–88’, in A. Goodman and A. Tuck (eds.), War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages (London, 1992), pp. 124–54.
‘The Religious Orders 1370–1540’, in J. I. Catto and R. Evans (eds.), The History of the University of Oxford, vol. Ⅰ, Late Medieval Oxford (Oxford, 1992), pp. 539–79.
‘The Jews of Medieval Cambridge’, Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 32 (1990–2), 1–24.
‘The Prosopography of Late Medieval Cathedral Canons’, Medieval Prosopography 15 (1994), 67–92.
‘The Monks of Canterbury in the Later Middle Ages, 1220–1540’, in P. Collinson et al. (eds.), A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Oxford, 1995), pp. 69–153.
‘The Ballads of Robin Hood’, in Kevin Carpenter (ed.), Catalogue of the International Robin Hood Exhibition (Oldenburg, 1995), pp. 35–44 (with J. Taylor).
‘William Sellyng, Prior of Canterbury Cathedral, 1472–94’, Canterbury Chronicle 89 (1995), 15–21.
‘The Educational Patronage of Archbishop Thomas Rotherham of York’, Northern History 31 (1995), 65–85.
‘Politics and the Church in the Fifteenth-Century North of England’, in A. J. Pollard (ed.), The North of England in the Age of Richard Ⅲ (Gloucester, 1996), pp. 1–17.
‘A Minority Ascendant: The Benedictine Conquest of the North of England, 1066–1100’, in S. J. Ridyard and R. G. Benson (eds.), Minorities and Barbarians in Medieval Life and Thought, Sewanee Medieval Studies 7 (1996), pp. 5–26.
‘A Minority within a Minority: the Jewesses of Thirteenth-Century England’, ibid, pp. 27–48.
‘Merry Men at Work: The Transformation of the Medieval Outlaw into the Heritage Hero’, Northern History 33 (1997), 232–7 (with J. Taylor).
‘The Black Monks of Durham and Canterbury Colleges: Comparisons and Contrasts’, in H. Wansbrough and A. Marett-Crosby (eds.), Benedictines in Oxford (London, 1997), pp. 61–78.
‘Craft Guilds and City: the Historical Origins of the York Mystery Plays Reassessed’, in A. E. Knight (ed.), The Stage as Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 91–106.
‘The Crown, The Charter and the City, 1396–1461’, in S. Rees Jones (ed.), The Government of Medieval York: Essays in Commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter, Borthwick Studies in History 3 (University of York, 1997), pp. 34–55.
‘Urban Europe’, Chapter 6 in C. Allmand (ed.), The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. Ⅶ, ⅽ. 1415–ⅽ. 1500 (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 121–44.
‘The Monastic Orders in Late Medieval Cambridge’, in Peter Biller and Barrie Dobson (eds.), The Medieval Church: Universities, Heresy and the Religious Life: Essays in Honour of Gordon Leff, Studies in Church History, Subsidia 11 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1999), pp. 239–69.
‘Claire Cross: A Tribute’, in D. Wood (ed.), Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c. 1100–c. 1700: Essays in Honour of Claire Cross, Studies in Church History, Subsidia 12 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1999), pp. 1–9.
‘English and Welsh Monastic Bishops: The Final Century, 1433–1533’, in B. Thompson (ed.), Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain, Harlaxton Medieval Studies 6 (1999), pp. 348–67.
‘Robin Hood: The Genesis of a Popular Hero’, in T. Hahn (ed.), Robin Hood in Popular Culture: Violence, Transgression and Justice (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 61–77.
‘The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1540: General Survey’, in D. M. Palliser (ed.), Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. Ⅰ, 600–1540 (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 273–90.
‘Aliens in the City of York during the Fifteenth Century’, in J. Mitchell (ed.), England and the Continent in the Late Middle Ages: Studies in Memory of Andrew Martindale, Harlaxton Medieval studies 8 (2001), pp. 249–66.

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