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.
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