'According to his wise discretion': civic Catholicism in fifteenth‐century Bristol – and beyond1. Issue 257 (5th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burgess, Clive
• Is Part Of: Historical research. Volume 92:Issue 257(2019)
• Page Start: 479
• Page End: 499
• Publication Date: 2019-07-05
• Subjects: History -- Periodicals; History -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 907.2
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.12281
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-3471

Abstract

Abstract: Studies of late medieval pious endeavour tend to dwell on urban practice and, more particularly, on the investment and surveillance arranged within the parish – focusing on the role that close family and churchwardens played to protect intercessory arrangements. Such ventures, however, also had a civic dimension, examined here. In pre‐Reformation Bristol, the mayor and other municipal officers played an active role safeguarding devotional investment; in addition to investigating the oversight of pious practice in this town, the following also makes a start in considering how typical – or not – such effort was.