Mary C Erler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1647899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary C Erler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary C |
| FAMILY NAME | Erler |
| SIGNATURE | ERLER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bishop John Alcock’s Profession-Day Sermon for Nuns
Around 1497 or 1498 two editions of a profession-day sermon for nuns, “Spousage of a Virgyn to Cryste,” given by Bishop John Alcock of Ely, were printed by Wynkyn de Worde— but without identifying the sponsoring religious house. This essay will suggest some parameters for exploring the celebration’s location, using both the sermon text and external evidence. Several elements suggest the house may have been Syon, England’s only Birgittine institut…
Syon at 1500
Manifestations of the Observant movement, the (mainly) fifteenth-century effort that strove to change religious life both inside and outside the cloister, have largely been studied on the Continent, in Germany, Italy, France, and the Low Countries. It has generally been agreed that evidence of these currents in England has been scarce, despite the prominence of the single Birgittine house at Syon Abbey, England, and the alignment of the order’s f…
Whose Middle Ages?
G lenn D. B urger . Conduct Becoming
Investigating French fourteenth- and fifteenth-century conduct literature, and to a lesser extent its English translations, Glenn D. Burger’s book Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages presents fresh ways to think about such medieval instruction. His claims for this genre are large: that focus on the figure of the good wife made possible the development of a spirituality neither clerical nor particularly aristocratic,…
Reading and Writing during the Dissolution
Erler, Mary C. Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558 / Kuskin, William. Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016, pp. 5-212), on Érudit
The Guildhall Library, Robert Bale and the writing of London history
The careers of four of London's late medieval chroniclers – Robert Bale, Richard Arnold, Robert Fabyan and Edward Hall – show the entrée to City administration that facilitated the writing of the City's narrative. More importantly, points of connection among these writers suggest the borrowings, physical and intellectual, that the presence of London's administrative library at the Guildhall made possible. This article focuses in particular on Rob…
A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558
The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the issues relevant to the early printed book, covering the significant cultural, social and technological developments from 1476 (the introduction of printing to England) to 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor). Divided into thematic sections (the pri…
London Commercial Theatre 1500–1576
When the Records of Early English Drama ( REED ) project was founded in 1975, it announced its intention to locate, transcribe and edit the evidence of English dramatic activity before 1642. It soon became apparent that the comparative scarcity of (new) dramatic texts meant that the project’s great contribution, broadly speaking, would be its research into the performance practices of communities. The chapter that follows, the product of work as …
The Laity
The Effects of Exile on English Monastic Spirituality
In 1557, William Peryn, an Oxford graduate and a Dominican, published his Spirituall Exercyses. A notable conservative preacher, he had left England, probably after the Act of Supremacy in 1534. The two nuns to whom he dedicated the book, Katherine Palmer of Syon and Dorothy Clement, a Poor Clare, were among the first English members of the Louvain diaspora. Peryn’s book was heavily influenced both by Ignatian and by Low Countries spirituality. T…
John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century
Journal Article John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century Get access John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century, by Karen A. Winstead (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2007; pp. 231. £36). Mary C. Erler Mary C. Erler Fordham University, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 505, December 2008, Pages 1532–1533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen337 Published: 01 December 200…
Bishop Richard Fox's Manuscript Gifts to his Winchester Nuns
To regularise and strengthen female monastic life in his Winchester diocese, in the early sixteenth century Bishop Richard Fox made a new translation of the Rule of St Benedict explicitly for women. He had it printed by Richard Pynson in 1517, thus taking advantage of the ability of the printing press to provide multiple copies for all the members of the four Hampshire womens' houses he addressed: St Mary Winchester (Nunnaminster), Wherwell, Roms…
Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages
Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy
In the Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as part of their Palm Sunday liturgical celebration, various London parishes purchased or rented costumes, wigs, and props for prophets, and paid to build scaffolds for them to stand on (“pageanttes“). Six other cities too had Palm Sunday prophets between 1498 and 1559 and it is perhaps significant that in all these places a substantial tradition of religious dissent existed. It is in London, however, tha…
Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority - violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such p…
Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy
In the Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as part of their Palm Sunday liturgical celebration, various London parishes purchased or rented costumes, wigs, and props for prophets, and paid to build scaffolds for them to stand on (“pageanttes“). Six other cities too had Palm Sunday prophets between 1498 and 1559 and it is perhaps significant that in all these places a substantial tradition of religious dissent existed. It is in London, however, tha…
Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority - violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such p…
Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy
In the Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as part of their Palm Sunday liturgical celebration, various London parishes purchased or rented costumes, wigs, and props for prophets, and paid to build scaffolds for them to stand on (“pageanttes“). Six other cities too had Palm Sunday prophets between 1498 and 1559 and it is perhaps significant that in all these places a substantial tradition of religious dissent existed. It is in London, however, tha…
Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages
Bishop Richard Fox's Manuscript Gifts to his Winchester Nuns
To regularise and strengthen female monastic life in his Winchester diocese, in the early sixteenth century Bishop Richard Fox made a new translation of the Rule of St Benedict explicitly for women. He had it printed by Richard Pynson in 1517, thus taking advantage of the ability of the printing press to provide multiple copies for all the members of the four Hampshire womens' houses he addressed: St Mary Winchester (Nunnaminster), Wherwell, Roms…
John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century
Journal Article John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century Get access John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century, by Karen A. Winstead (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2007; pp. 231. £36). Mary C. Erler Mary C. Erler Fordham University, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 505, December 2008, Pages 1532–1533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen337 Published: 01 December 200…
The Effects of Exile on English Monastic Spirituality
In 1557, William Peryn, an Oxford graduate and a Dominican, published his Spirituall Exercyses. A notable conservative preacher, he had left England, probably after the Act of Supremacy in 1534. The two nuns to whom he dedicated the book, Katherine Palmer of Syon and Dorothy Clement, a Poor Clare, were among the first English members of the Louvain diaspora. Peryn’s book was heavily influenced both by Ignatian and by Low Countries spirituality. T…
A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558
The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the issues relevant to the early printed book, covering the significant cultural, social and technological developments from 1476 (the introduction of printing to England) to 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor). Divided into thematic sections (the pri…
London Commercial Theatre 1500–1576
When the Records of Early English Drama ( REED ) project was founded in 1975, it announced its intention to locate, transcribe and edit the evidence of English dramatic activity before 1642. It soon became apparent that the comparative scarcity of (new) dramatic texts meant that the project’s great contribution, broadly speaking, would be its research into the performance practices of communities. The chapter that follows, the product of work as …
The Laity
Reading and Writing during the Dissolution
Erler, Mary C. Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558 / Kuskin, William. Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016, pp. 5-212), on Érudit
The Guildhall Library, Robert Bale and the writing of London history
The careers of four of London's late medieval chroniclers – Robert Bale, Richard Arnold, Robert Fabyan and Edward Hall – show the entrée to City administration that facilitated the writing of the City's narrative. More importantly, points of connection among these writers suggest the borrowings, physical and intellectual, that the presence of London's administrative library at the Guildhall made possible. This article focuses in particular on Rob…
Whose Middle Ages?
G lenn D. B urger . Conduct Becoming
Investigating French fourteenth- and fifteenth-century conduct literature, and to a lesser extent its English translations, Glenn D. Burger’s book Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages presents fresh ways to think about such medieval instruction. His claims for this genre are large: that focus on the figure of the good wife made possible the development of a spirituality neither clerical nor particularly aristocratic,…
Syon at 1500
Manifestations of the Observant movement, the (mainly) fifteenth-century effort that strove to change religious life both inside and outside the cloister, have largely been studied on the Continent, in Germany, Italy, France, and the Low Countries. It has generally been agreed that evidence of these currents in England has been scarce, despite the prominence of the single Birgittine house at Syon Abbey, England, and the alignment of the order’s f…
Bishop John Alcock’s Profession-Day Sermon for Nuns
Around 1497 or 1498 two editions of a profession-day sermon for nuns, “Spousage of a Virgyn to Cryste,” given by Bishop John Alcock of Ely, were printed by Wynkyn de Worde— but without identifying the sponsoring religious house. This essay will suggest some parameters for exploring the celebration’s location, using both the sermon text and external evidence. Several elements suggest the house may have been Syon, England’s only Birgittine institut…
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