Popular Belief and Practice
Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society

Table of Contents

1. Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians Arnaldo Momigliano
2. Popular religion and christological controversy in the fifth W. H. C. Frend
3. The Merovingian monastery of St Evroul in the light of conflicting traditions Marjorie Chibnall
4. Vir Dei: secular sanctity in the early tenth century Derek Baker
5. A critique of popular religion: Guibert of Nogent on The Relics of the Saints Colin Morris
6. The making of a twelfth-century relic collection Denis Bethell
7. Innocent III's treatment of the Humiliati Brenda Bolton
8. Piety and impiety in thirteenth-century Italy Alexander Murray
9. Some popular prophecies from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries Marjorie E. Reeves
10. Belief and practice as illustrated by John XXII's excommunication of Robert Bruce Rosalind M. T. Hill
11. Bacon and eggs: bishop Buckingham and superstition in Lincolnshire Dorothy M. Owen
12. `Wilde wittes and wilfulnes': John Swetstock's attack on those 'poyswunmongeres', the Lollards Roy M. Haines
13. Protestant spirituality in the first age of the Reformation Gordon Rupp
14. Some thoughts on the development of a lay religious consciousness in pre-Civil-War England Marc L. Schwarz
15. The social teaching of archbishop John Williams R. Buick Knox
16. The puritan piety of members of the Long Parliament G. S. S. Yule (in absentia)
17. He-goats before the Flocks': a note on the part played by women in the founding of some Civil War churches Claire Cross
18. The social status of some seventeenth-century rural Dissenters Margaret Spufford
19. Methodism and the mob in the eighteenth century John Walsh
20. Evangelicalism and worldliness, 1770–1870 Michael Hennell
21. The religion of the people and the problem of control, 1790–1830 (Presidential Address) W. R. Ward
22. Papists, Protestants and the Irish in London, 1835–70 Sheridan Gilley
23. The Churches and society in nineteenth-century England: a rural perspective David M. Thompson
24. Pratique, piece et foi populaire dins la France moderne au XIXème et XXème siècles A. Latreille (in absentia)
25. The Welsh revival of 1904–5: a critique Basil Hall
26. Puritanicalism, sport, and race: a symbolic crusade of 1911 Stuart Mews.

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