The Call to Read: Reginald Pecock's Books and Textual Communities

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306 Abbey of the Holy Ghost, 98–99 active life, defined, 87–88, 91. See also mixed life Aquinas, 11–12, 22 Summa contra Gentiles, 65 Summa theologiae, 172 theories of knowledge, 167 Aristotle, 167 Arundel. See Constitutions (of Archbishop Arundel, 1409) Bible authority of church to dispense with parts of, 191 failure of, in grounding moral truths of reason, 188, 196–97 licenses for laymen to read, 201 Lollard views on, 181–82 role in grounding truths of faith, 184–85, 188–91 source for Pecock’s Reule, 20–21 See also faith Book of Margery Kempe, 242 books of hours, 67. See also primers Book to a Mother, 174 Bose, Mishtooni, 254 Brantley, Jessica, 268n.82 Capgrave, John, 186–87 Carpenter, John, 34 will of, 43 Chastising of God’s Children, 127–28 Chichele, Henry, 73 common-profit books, 48 other book-lending schemes, 230–33 Constitutions (of Archbishop Arundel, 1409) articles on teaching matters of faith, 82 defined, 6 legislation regarding vernacular scripture, 187 possible impact, 7, 126 Constitutions (of Archbishop Pecham, 1281), 6–7. contemplation defined, 87–89, 92, 94–95 difference between ordinary and inspired contemplation, 141–44 experience of divine union in, 139–40 London literature about, 106 monastic views of, 96 purpose of, 94 Index Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God, 97–98 contemplative life as ascending path to God, 272n.9 defined, 87, 91 relationship to Pecock’s four tables, 92 See also mixed life Eucharist, 225–26 faith examining the articles of, 192–95, 255 instruction on, 82–84 Lollard education in, 183 positive ordinances of God, 190–91 principal source for the content of Pecock’s Reule, 20–21, 184–85 sacraments, 213–14 See also Pecock, Reginald: Book of Faith Fish, Stanley, 206–8 Hilton, Walter Mixed Life, 101–5, 276n.46 Horologium sapientiae, 68 interpretive communities. See Fish, Stanley Iser, Wolfgang, 55 Jacob’s Well, 174 Ladder of Foure Ronges, 139–40 liturgy, 59 Brigittine Divine Office, 122 contested role of vernacular in, 126–28 Pecock’s reform of, 112–15, 121–25, 250–51 problems with, 117–18 status of, 120 See also Pecock, Reginald: Book of Divine Office Lollardy, 1–2 bibliocentrism, 181–87 described by Pecock, 28–29, 74–76 education, 64, 75–76 errors of (according to Pecock), 181–83 London community, 29 Richard Wyche, 40 schools of, 77 sermons, 182 textual communities of, 24 London book ownership, 41–42, 277n.67 book trade, 30, 42 civic officials, 39 civic projects, 35, 54 fifteenth-century reading public, 31 literacy in, 41 mercers, 32–34 public execution of Richard Wyche in, 40 public sphere of discussion in, 46 references in Pecock’s work to, 38, 40, 51–53 Syon connections to London community, 50 Longleat sermons, 220 criticism of corrupt clerics in, 220 hierarchy of clergy, 221 Love, Nicholas, 119, 219 Index 307 meditation alternative programs for, 131–32, 281n.26 fruits of, 138–39, 141–43 role of Pater Noster in, 137 role of Pecock’s Reule in, 130–31 role of prayer in, 129 sources for, 136 structure of, 129, 133–37 See also contemplation; prayer Mirk, John, 186, 218–19, 222 mixed life alternation of activities in, 94 in Book to a Mother, 90 defined, 86–88, 91 defined by Giles Constable, 271n.4, 273n.30 Mary and Martha as model of, 86–92 moral law Bible’s teachings on, 197–98 distinguished from God’s positive law of faith, 199 governances pertaining to education, 63 grounding of, 159–60 need for books about, 68 See also natural law (law of kind); Pecock, Reginald: four tables of moral law; reason moral philosophy, 12–13, 277n.1 familiarity with in London textual community, 42–45 teaching by means of Pecock’s exempla, 53–56 Myroure of Oure Ladye, 125–27 natural law (law of kind), 65 authoritative book of, 197 interrelatedness of truths in, 170 more authoritative source on morality than Bible, 198 need for books about, 68 precedes writing of the Bible, 198 See also moral law; reason Nature (personified), 235–36 Orme, Nicholas, 78–81, 269n.21, 269n.33 parables, 166–67 Pecham, 61. See also Constitutions (of Archbishop Pecham, 1281) Pecock, Reginald biography of, 5 Book of Divine Office, 112–15 Book of Faith polemical nature of, 28–29 teaching on sources of faith...