Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen: (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion)

Essays on English medieval ecclesiastical history, focusing particularly on administration. Dorothy Owen has made a major contribution over half a century to our knowledge of the history of the English church, especially but not exclusively in the middle ages. While her published work has focused largely on eastern England, she has never lost sight of the wider universal context, and is one of the leading scholars of medieval canon law. This volume of essays on English medieval ecclesiastical history is presented to her as a tribute from friends,colleagues and former pupils; their contents range from the pre-Conquest period to the eve of the Reformation, but are all concerned with the practicalities of ecclesiastical administration and jurisdiction. Contributors: JOAN VARLEY, DAVID CHAMBERS, C.N.L. BROOKE, MARK BAILEY, MARTIN BRETT, M.J. FRANKLIN, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, ROSALIND HILL, RALPH HOULBROOKE, BRIAN KEMP, F. DONALD LOGAN, A.K. McHARDY, SANDRA RABAN, DAVID M. SMITH, R.L. STOREY, R.N. SWANSON, PAMELA TAYLOR, P.N.R. ZUTSHI, ARTHUR OWEN

Table of Contents:
Bibliography of the Writings of Dorothy Mary Owen - Appreciation: Dorothy Owen at Lambeth - D S Chambers Appreciation: Dorothy Owen in Cambridge and English Episcopal Acta of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - C N L Brooke The Prior and Convent of Ely and their Management of their Manor of Lakenheath in the Fourteenth Century - Canon Law and Litigation: the Century before Gratian - Martin Brett Bodies in Medieval Northampton: Legatine Intervention in the Twelfth Century - John of Oxford, Diplomat and Bishop - Christopher Harper-Bill Bishop Sutton's Chantry - Rosalind Hill *** dec *** Bishop Nykke's Last Visitation, 1532 - Informing the Archdeacon on Ecclesiastical Matters in Twelfth- Century England - B R Kemp The Cambridge Canon Law Faculty: Sermons and Addresses - F. Donald Logan Church Courts and Criminous Clerks in the Later Middle Ages - The Church in the 1279 Hundred Rolls - Sandra G Raban The `Officialis' of the Bishop in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England: Problems of Terminology - David Smith Malicious Indictment of Clergy in the Fifteenth Century - R L Storey *** Parochialism and Particularism: the Dispute over the Status of Ditchford Friary, Warwickshire, in the Early Fifteenth Century - Robert N Swanson Boundaries and Margins: Barnet, Finchley and Totteridge - Pamela Taylor Collective Indulgences from Rome and Avignon in English Collections - Patrick N R Zutshi Bibliography of the Writings of Dorothy Mary Owen - A E B Owen

About the Author :
F. DONALD LOGAN is Professor Emeritus of History at Emmanuel College, Boston, and Honorary Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

Review :
The range and depth of this collection is a fitting tribute to Dorothy Owen's work. Many contributions are likely to prove of lasting and considerable worth...they deserve a wide readership. Impressive sample of recent research on the organisation, jurisdiction and lordship of the English church. The volume is of excellent quality and will be appreciated for its probing of a variety of interesting problems.