After Arundel: Religious Writing In Fifteenth-century England

A FTER A RUNDEL MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES Volume 21 AFTER ARUNDEL Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England Edited by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh H F British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data After Arundel : religious writing in fifteenth-century England. -- (Medieval church studies ; v. 21) 1. Devotional literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism. 2. Christian literature, English (Middle)-History and criticism. 3. Christian life--England-History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources. 4. Church history--15th century--Sources. I. Series II. Gillespie, Vincent, 1954- III. Ghosh, Kantik, 1967820.9'3823'09024-dc23 ISBN-13: 9782503534022 © 2011, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form of by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2011/0095/194 ISBN: 978-2-503-53402-2 Printed on acid-free paper C ONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi List of Abbreviations xv List of Contributors xvii Part I. Opening Salvoes Chichele’s Church: Vernacular Theology in England after Thomas Arundel 3 VINCENT GILLESPIE After Arundel: The Closing or the Opening of the English Mind? 43 JEREMY CATTO Censorship or Cultural Change? Reformation and Renaissance in the Spirituality of Late Medieval England MICHAEL G. SARGENT 55 Vernacular Theology / Theological Vernacular: A Game of Two Halves? 73 IAN JOHNSON Part II. Discerning the Discourse: Language, Image, and Spirituality Orthodoxy’s Image Trouble: Images in and after Arundel’s Constitutions 91 JAMES SIMPSON Censorship and Cultural Continuity: Love’s Mirror, the Pore Caitif, and Religious Experience before and after Arundel CHRISTOPHER G. BRADLEY 115 Voice after Arundel 133 DAVID LAWTON Part III. The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform Conciliarism and Heresy in England 155 ALEXANDER RUSSELL ‘Let Them Praise Him in Church’: Orthodox Reform at Salisbury Cathedral in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century 167 DAVID LEPINE London after Arundel: Learned Rectors and the Strategies of Orthodox Reform 187 SHEILA LINDENBAUM Common Libraries in Fifteenth-Century England: An Episcopal Benefaction 209 JAMES WILLOUGHBY Part IV. Ecclesiastical Humanism Religion, Humanism, and Humanity: Chaundler’s Dialogues and the Winch