Pragmatic utopias : ideals and communities, 1200-1630 /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | ix, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4583235 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Richard Barrie Dobson: an appreciation
- 1. 'If heaven be on this earth, is it in cloister or in school': the monastic ideal in later medieval English literature
- 2. The 'chariot of Aminadab' and the Yorkshire priory of Swine
- 3. 'Godliness and good learning': ideals and imagination in medieval university and college foundations
- 4. Hugh of Balsham, bishop of Ely 1256/7âÇô1286
- 5. A cruel necessity? Christ's and St John's, two Cambridge re-foundations
- 6. Coventry's 'Lollard' programme of 1492 and the making of Utopia
- 7. Thomas More's Utopia and medieval London
- 8. Social exclusivity or justice for all? Access to justice in fourteenth-century England
- 9. Idealising criminality: Robin Hood in the fifteenth century
- 10. Fat Christian and Old Peter: ideals and compromises among the medieval Waldensians
- 11. Imageless devotion: what kind of an ideal?
- 12. An English anchorite: the making, unmaking and remaking of Christine Carpenter
- 13. Victorian values in fifteenth-century England: the Ewelme almshouse statutes
- 14. Puritanism and the poor
- 15. Realising a Utopian dream: the transformation of the clergy in the diocese of York, 1500âÇô1630
- Bibliography of Barrie Dobson's published works
