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  • 1 - Religious Houses and the Laity in Eleventh- to Thirteenth-Century England: An Overview

  • Edited by Stephen Morillo
  • Book:
    The Haskins Society Journal 12
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 September 2012
    Print publication:
    21 August 2003, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    Testificacio primi doni

    R. de Gant omnibus ecclesie filiis salutem. Notum sit vobis me presentem fuisse ubi Gilbertus comes frater meus fecit diuisam suam in extrema egritudine sua coram hominibus suis qui presentes fuerunt et dedit Ecclesie Brid' cum corpore suo in liberam etperpetuam elemosinam Burtonam cum omnibus suis pertinenciis …

    Hec omnia confirmauit eidem ecclesie cum libertatibus que sunt in Carta sua et precepit mihi sicut fratri suo et homini ut ego ad scribendum et ad sigillandum presens essem cumhominibus suis qui tunc erant cum eo et cum lecte essent carte de hiis coram nobis per consilium et assensum eorundem hominum suorum de manu mea accepit. Johannes Camerarius sigillum et sub testimonio nostro sigillauit eas de hac re testis sum ego et si aliquis contradicere uoluerit paratus sum ego de hoc facere quicquid pertinet ad testem legittimum. Valete.

    A benefaction to a religious house, even by a lay magnate such as de Gant, and even to the family's foundation whose inmates had been described in proprietary fashion by Gilbert de Gant, earl of Lincoln, as canonici mei, was thus a momentous occasion, inscribed in local memory. In this case, the occasion washeightened by death-bed anxiety and the congregation of the lord's followers. Exceptional it certainly was, therefore, in the context of the multitudinous benefactions to religious houses. With few exceptions, English charters notifying benefactions to religious houses are cursory, indeed little more than notifications.

  • Penance and the Market Place: a Reformation Dialogue with the Medieval Church (c. 1250–c. 1600)

  • DAVE POSTLES
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 54 / Issue 3 / July 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2003, pp. 441-468
    Print publication:
    July 2003

  • During the later Middle Ages the ecclesiastical jurisdiction generally abandoned ritual humiliation in the market place as an integral part of penance imposed by sentence in its courts, although intermittently this punishment continued into the early sixteenth century. In the early decades of the ecclesia anglicana of Elizabeth, however, several jurisdictions reintroduced shaming in the market place as a consistent part of a disciplinary regime. Although constituting no more than an episode, as public penance had again declined by the 1580s, the reintroduction of penance in the public forum reveals much about the character of the Anglican Church in the first decades after the settlement of 1558, but also reflects back on the pre-Reformation Church.