Abstract
Fiona Somerset. Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif. Pp xiii + 315. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2014. Hardback, $65. Katherine J. Lewis
There is an abundance of fine scholarship available which surveys and interrogates late medieval religious practice in England. Of late, much of this has explored the lay experience of religion, especially as revealed by phenomena such as the dynamics of saints’ cults, parish and guild membership, and the composition and circulation of vernacular devotional texts, among others. But, as Fiona Somerset points out in her shrewd and important new book, such studies generally focus on those established as orthodox adherents of what Eamon Duffy describes as ‘traditional religion’.
There is an abundance of fine scholarship available which surveys and interrogates late medieval religious practice in England. Of late, much of this has explored the lay experience of religion, especially as revealed by phenomena such as the dynamics of saints’ cults, parish and guild membership, and the composition and circulation of vernacular devotional texts, among others. But, as Fiona Somerset points out in her shrewd and important new book, such studies generally focus on those established as orthodox adherents of what Eamon Duffy describes as ‘traditional religion’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 365-367 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | The Review of English Studies |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 274 |
| Early online date | 7 Nov 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2015 |