This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church
by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual
performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The
meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. The book explores what was at stake not only
for the church's sanctity but for the identity of the parish
community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach
the laity, it shows how the church's status as a sacred space at
the heart of the congregation was dangerously - but profitably -
dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably
linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the
sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin. -- .
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