The Call To Read - Reginald Pecock's Books And Textual Communities

Campbell, Kirsty

ISBN 10: 0268023069 / ISBN 13: 9780268023065

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2010

About this Item

Paperback, F. xii+310pp, index, a fine copy. A study of the surviving writings of the mid 15th century English bishop Reginald Pecock [ 1395 - 1461 ]& the program of Lay Education he devised against the threat of the Lollards & the orthodox counter attacks against their views. 500 grams.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Call To Read - Reginald Pecock's Books And Textual Communities
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268023069
• ISBN 13: 9780268023065
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: New
• Weight: 500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology
  • Catholicism

About this title

Synopsis

The Call to Read is the first full-length study to situate the surviving oeuvre of Reginald Pecock in the context of current scholarship on English vernacular theology of the late medieval period. Kirsty Campbell examines the important and innovative contribution Pecock made to late medieval debates about the roles of the Bible, the Church, the faculty of reason, and practices of devotion in fostering a vital, productive, and stable Christian community.

Campbell argues that Pecock's fascinating attempt to educate the laity is more than an effort to supply religious reading material: it is an attempt to establish and unite a community of readers around his books, to influence and thus change the ways they understand their faith, the world, and their place in it. The aim of Pecock's educational project is to harness the power of texts to effect religious change. Combining traditional approaches with innovative thinking on moral philosophy, devotional exercises, and theological doctrine, Pecock's works of religious instruction are his attempt to reform a Christian community threatened by heresy through reshaping meaningful Christian practices and forms of belief. Campbell's book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval literature and culture, especially those interested in fifteenth-century religious history and culture.

About the Author

Kirsty Campbell is professor of English at John Abbott College in Montreal, Canada.