England's religious life in the fifteenth century is worthy of sustained, nuanced, and meticulous analysis. This book offers a portrait of late medieval English religious theory and praxis that complicates any attempt to present the period as either quivering in the post-traumatic stress of Lollardy, or basking in the autumn sunshine of an uncritical and self-satisfied hierarchy?s failure to engage with undoubted European and domestic crises in ecclesiology, pastoral theology, anti-clericalism, and lay spiritual emancipation. After Arundel means not just because of or despite Archbishop Arundel (and the repressive legislation associated with him), for it also asks what models and taxonomies will be needed to move beyond Arundel as a fixed star in the firmament of (especially literary) scholarship in the period. It aims to supply the next phase of scholarly exploration of this still often dark continent of religious attitudes and writing with new tools and technical vocabularies, as well as to suggest new directions of travel. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword List of Contributors Part I. Opening Salvoes Chichele?s Church: Vernacular Theology in England after Thomas Arundel - VINCENT GILLESPIE After Arundel: The Closing or the Opening of the English Mind? - JEREMY CATTO Censorship or Cultural Change? Reformation and Renaissance in the Spirituality of Late Medieval England - MICHAEL G. SARGENT Vernacular Theology / Theological Vernacular: A Game of Two Halves? - IAN JOHNSON Part II. Discerning the Discourse: Language, Image, and Spirituality Orthodoxy?s Image Trouble: Images in and after Arundel?s Constitutions - JAMES SIMPSON Censorship and Cultural Continuity: Love?s Mirror, the Pore Caitif, and Religious Experience before and after Arundel - CHRISTOPHER G. BRADLEY Voice after Arundel - DAVID LAWTON Part III. The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform Conciliarism and Heresy in England - ALEXANDER RUSSELL ?Let Them Praise Him in Church?: Orthodox Reform at Salisbury Cathedral in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century? - DAVID LEPINE London after Arundel: Learned Rectors and the Strategies of Orthodox Reform - SHEILA LINDENBAUM Common Libraries in Fifteenth-Century England: An Episcopal Benefaction - JAMES WILLOUGHBY Part IV. Ecclesiastical Humanism Religion, Humanism, and Humanity: Chaundler?s Dialogues and the Winchester Secretum - DANIEL WAKELIN Staging Advice in Oxford, New College, MS 288: On Thomas Chaundler and Thomas Bekynton - ANDREW COLE Part V. Reginald Pecock Reconstructing the Mixed Life in Reginald Pecock?s Reule of Crysten Religioun - ALLAN F. WESTPHALL Vernacular Authority and the Rhetoric of Sciences in Pecock?s The Folewer to the Donet and in The Court of Sapience - TAM S KAR TH Part VI. Literary Self-Consciousness and Literary History ?This holy tyme?: Present Sense in the Digby Lyrics - HELEN BARR English Devotions for a Noble Household: The Long Passion in Audelay?s Counsel of Conscience - SUSANNA FEIN Lydgate?s Retraction and ?his resorte to his religyoun? - W. H. E. SWEET Part VII. The Codex as an Instrument of Reform Devotional Cosmopolitanism in Fifteenth-Century England - STEPHEN KELLY AND RYAN PERRY Canons and Catechisms: The Austin Canons of South-East England and Sacerdos parochialis - NIAMH PATTWELL ? at ine opun dedis be a trewe book?: Reading around Arundel?s Constitutions - AMANDA MOSS Part VIII. Translation Gender, Confession, and Authority: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 in the Fifteenth Century - JENNIFER BROWN Dressing up a ?galaunt?: Traditional Piety and Fashionable Politics in Peter Idley?s ?translacions? of Mannyng and Lydgate - MATTHEW GIANCARLO Richard Methley and the Translation of Vernacular Religious Writing into Latin - LAURA SAETVEIT MILES Part IX. Acting Holy Saints? Lives and the Literary after Arundel - CATHERINE SANOK Hagiography after Arundel: Expounding the Trinity - KAREN WINSTEAD Proliferation and Purification: The Use of Books for Nuns after Arundel - C. ANNETTE GRIS Part X. From Script to Print After Arundel but before Luther: The First Half-Century of Print - SUSAN POWELL Part XI. Closing Reflections and Responses Wyclif, Arundel, and the Long Fifteenth Century - KANTIK GHOSH ?A clerke schulde have it of kinde for to kepe counsell? - NICHOLAS WATSON Bibliography Index Nominum Index of Manuscripts