Recent scholarship concerning parish priests in medieval England,
their professional training, and their daily pastoral work has
produced a more complex and realistic picture of parish clergy in
the High and Late Middle Ages which dispels many of the durable
myths and stereotypical images that emerged from popular studies
written almost a century ago. In this source book, John Shinner and
William Dohar bring together a large, varied selection of medieval
documents on pastoral care. These materials from a wide range of
sources —administrative, theological, legal, historical, and
literary—are grouped thematically and prefaced by introductions
to each chapter which set the context provide basic background
information, and offer a concise summary of the recruitment,
training, occupations, and circumstances of the parish clergy
during the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Included in the
readings are excerpts from pastoral manuals, bishops’ registers,
diocesan legislation, financial accounts, and records of parish
visitations that when combined offer a vivid picture of daily
parish life. The readings in this volume focus first of all on the
multifaceted lives and responsibilities of those men who engaged in
the pastoral care of souls in medieval England. What emerges is not
the old view of these priests as a fairly anonymous and homogeneous
mass entity but rather as a richly diverse group—from noble to
baseborn, from academically brilliant to barely lettered, from
deeply pious to grossly opportunistic, and from utterly committed
to despicably derelict in carrying out their pastoral duties.
Selected documents go on to illuminate the elaborate systems of
support created to help parish clergy: the administrative divisions
of the institutional church; the methods of formulating and
disseminating instruction on theological, canonical, and liturgical
subjects; and the legal apparatus formed to direct the cure of
souls. By highlighting the wider social and religious milieu in
which the medieval pastor worked, the author / editors intend to
guide the reader to richer appreciation of the Christian
religion’s inextricable bond to nearly every facet of life in the
High and Late Middle Ages. Suitable for a number of classroom
applications and academic disciplines, this book offers those
interested in pastoral care, medieval studies, and church history a
unique sourcebook, the only collection of translated documents
specifically devoted to the lives and mission of the parish clergy
in medieval England.
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