Pragmatic utopias : ideals and communities, 1200-1630 / edited by Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones.
| Other author | Horrox, Rosemary. |
| Other author | Rees Jones, Sarah. |
| Other author | Dobson, R. B. (Richard Barrie) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
| Description | ix, 286 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | If heaven be on this earth, it is in cloister or in school : the monastic ideal in later medieval English literature / Derek Pearsall -- Chariot of Aminadab and the Yorkshire priory of Swine / Janet Burton -- Godliness and good learning : ideals and imagination in medieval university and college foundations / R.N. Swanson -- Hugh of Balsham, bishop of Ely 1256/7-1286 / Roger Lovatt -- Cruel necessity? Christ's and St John's, two Cambridge refoundations / Malcolm G. Underwood -- Coventry's Lollard programme of 1492 and the making of Utopia / P.J.P. Goldberg -- Thomas More's Utopia and medieval London / Sarah Rees Jones -- Social exclusivity or justice for all? Access to justice in in fourteenth-century England / Anthony Musson -- Idealising criminality : Robin Hood in the fifteenth century / A.J. Pollard -- Fat Christian and Old Peter : ideals and compromises among the medieval Waldensians / Peter Biller -- Imageless devotion : what kind of an ideal? / Margaret Aston -- English anchorite : the making, unmaking and remaking of Christine Carpenter / Miri Rubin -- Victorian values in fifteenth-century England : the Ewelme almshouse statutes / Colin Richmond -- Puritanism and the poor / Patrick Collinson -- Realising a utopian dream : the transformation of the clergy in the diocese of York, 1500-1630 / Claire Cross. |
| General note | A festschrift in honor of Barrie Dobson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Bibliography note | "Bibliography of Barrie Dobson's published works": p. 277-280. |
| LCCN | 2001025828 |
| ISBN | 0521650607 |