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

Abstract

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 XIXeme et XXeme siecles 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.