Ian Forrest
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Forrest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Forrest |
| SIGNATURE | FORREST I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thiel College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1181-4179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medieval History and Anarchist Studies
Medieval history and anarchist studies have a great deal to offer one another, but there is very little intellectual traffic between the two fields. This paper encourages historians to deploy anarchism as an approach to historical research akin to Marxist or feminist historiography, so that 'anarchist history' can move beyond the history of the modern anarchist movement and become a radical new way of studying and learning from the human past. Re…
Afterword
An afterword to the special collection 'New Approaches to Medieval Court Records'. The piece reflects on the role of law courts in medieval and early modern state formation, and offers critical assessment of the state of the field, examining chronological and geographical limitations to current scholarship
Seeking Sanctuary
The sanctuary offered to suspected criminals by churches in the Middle Ages has often been cited as evidence for the otherness of the medieval past. It has been seen as antithetical to the universalism of the law, a hindrance to state growth, a sign of ecclesiastical privilege and the enemy of justice. In this study Shannon McSheffrey takes issue with that picture, looking more thoroughly and critically at sanctuary in the later medieval period t…
Trustworthy Men
The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bishops to govern depended on the cooperation of local people known as trustworthy men and shows how the combination of inequality and faith helped make the …
Trust in Long-Distance Relationships, 1000-1600 ce
Trust in long-distance relationships
Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble
Legal records are attractive to social historians because they often contain stories about lower status people. They hold out the tantalising prospect of following the deeds, relationships, and even thoughts and motivations of a wide variety of historical actors. But this ‘allure of the archive’, as Arlette Farge calls it, has the potential to convince historians of a fallacy: that the stories people told about crime are a window onto life as it …
Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy
The contribution of Bruce Campbell to medieval economic and social history, honoured in this volume, has been second to none. In his own words, Campbell’s research career has been built around doing the same thing again and again, only on a bigger and bigger scale with each iteration. To a great extent this is true: he has exemplified the modelling and interpretation of crop yields, demographic information and other economic data for many years, …
Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages
The career of John Van Engen is honoured in this interesting volume of essays edited by David C. Mengel and Lisa Wolverton. Van Engen is known to specialists working on several distinct areas of later medieval religious history, but there are probably few who could range as widely as he does himself. The essays here represent that range, from twelfth-century religious writings and Jewish–Christian relations to late medieval culture and gender. Va…
Trust and Doubt
In governing their dioceses late medieval bishops faced significant epistemological challenges: how was it possible to determine the truth in disputes over local customs, patronage, the conduct of divine service and the provision of pastoral care? All such problems demanded an adjudication between competing stories about rights, history and usage, and while canon law provided a framework of principles, it did not provide the answers bishops neede…
The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages
This concise and compelling book by Gervase Rosser is the distillation of many years’ original research and deep thought about guilds in medieval Europe. In it, he sweeps aside the casual assumptions of the existing historiography and sets out a bold and absorbing new thesis. All future historians of guilds, as well as historians of social, economic and religious life in the later Middle Ages more generally, should consider its arguments very car…
The Thirteenth-Century Visitation Records of the Diocese of Hereford
When visitation of the laity became a regular feature of parish and diocesan life towards the end of the thirteenth century, it relied upon new forms of documentation. Three visitation records of the late thirteenth century from Hereford diocese are edited here, and the character of the documents, produced under the pioneering bishops Thomas Cantilupe and Richard Swinfield, is described and analysed. The authors discuss the reasons for the emerge…
Continuity and Change in the Institutional Church
Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc
Journal Article Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc: Fear Not the Madness of the Raging Mob Get access Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc: Fear Not the Madness of the Raging Mob. By Patricia Turning. Leiden: Brill. 2013. 199pp. £86.00. ISBN 978 9 0042 3464 2. Ian Forrest Ian Forrest Oriel College, Oxford Search for other works by this author o…
The Making of Medieval Antifraternalism
‘Antifraternalism’ has become a term commonly used in medieval studies to refer to the criticism of friars; that is, members of the uncloistered religious orders that developed in Europe from the early thirteenth century. In this long essay, Guy Geltner makes the argument that what has hitherto been seen largely as a literary discourse and as a precondition of the Protestant reformation can, in fact, only be understood if social history is brough…
The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England
Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in t…
Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing, by Edwin Craun
The Transformation of Visitation in Thirteenth-Century England
Three things about which most historians of thirteenth-century England would agree are that it was an increasingly governed society, an increasingly Christianized society, and a society undergoing massive social change owing to demographic and economic growth.1 Despite some fertile and persuasive connections made by Richard Britnell between commercialization, institutional growth and literacy, the relationships between such familiar interpretativ…
Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century
Why the Middle Ages Matter
Medieval historians sometimes feel as though they are working in a field remote from the interests of modern historians and social scientists, even though the middle ages is a source of fascination to the wider reading and viewing public. The present book gathers essays on various modern ‘injustices’ (broadly defined), and each author attempts to show what medieval conditions, attitudes, and experiences can contribute to debate on the modern issu…
What is a Lollard? Dissent and Belief in Late Medieval England, by J. Patrick Hornbeck II
This is a welcome contribution to the history of belief in late medieval England: the author, J. Patrick Hornbeck, is a theologian sympathetic to historians’ concerns and well versed in the literary scholarship in the field. His argument—that there was change and diversity within what we call lollardy—is not wholly original but his method and exposition are. For many historians, a comment on diversity has been the footnote to the study of a coher…
The archive of the official of Stow and the 'machinery' of church government in the late thirteenth century
The government and administration of the late medieval church is often said to have relied upon bureaucratic ‘machinery’. Using unpublished documents from the archive of Benedict of Ferriby, official of the archdeacon of Stow in the later thirteenth century, the author argues that bureaucracy was not simply mechanical and that ecclesiastical administration depended on personal relations and local knowledge. The operation of pastoral care and eccl…
The Politics of Burial in Late Medieval Hereford
BURIAL has long been seen by historians and archaeologists as a telling indicator of personal and collective identity.1 How individuals in the late Middle Ages saw death in relation to a personal life story, a family and affinity network, the local community, organised religion and God, has been investigated primarily through last wills and testaments, with additional insight gained from the material evidence of some high-class burial monuments: …
William Swinderby and the Wycliffite Attitude to Excommunication
The early Wycliffite William Swinderby expressed some strong criticisms of excommunication. He was alarmed that churchman thought that it was their power, rather than God's power, that consigned a soul to hell. The rhetoric of sentences of excommunication in this period was indeed intended to frighten offenders into compliance with ecclesiastical judgements, but the theory and practice of excommunication was in fact far less simple that the Wycli…
A Social History of England 1200-1500
The editors of this excellent collection of essays have, independently of one another, already acquired reputations for writing and editing books that are both intellectually stimulating and well suited for the undergraduate audience. Together, they have done it again. Defining social history more broadly than has been the case in the past, the essays in this book take in much of the ground claimed by a ‘cultural history’ that once seemed set to …
Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London
This book is a study of marriage and sex in social context, looked at through the prism of litigation in the ecclesiastical and (to a lesser extent) civic courts of London in the (mostly late) fifteenth century. The archival sources are extremely rich, the subject is intrinsically interesting, and late medieval London is an increasingly popular area of study. Shannon McSheffrey has more than done justice to this promising raw material. What first…
Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England
Journal Article Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England Get access Ian Forrest Ian Forrest Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 482, June 2004, Pages 781–782, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.482.781 Published: 01 June 2004
Trust in Long-Distance Relationships, 1000-1600 ce
Trust in long-distance relationships
The Thirteenth-Century Visitation Records of the Diocese of Hereford
When visitation of the laity became a regular feature of parish and diocesan life towards the end of the thirteenth century, it relied upon new forms of documentation. Three visitation records of the late thirteenth century from Hereford diocese are edited here, and the character of the documents, produced under the pioneering bishops Thomas Cantilupe and Richard Swinfield, is described and analysed. The authors discuss the reasons for the emerge…
The Politics of Burial in Late Medieval Hereford
BURIAL has long been seen by historians and archaeologists as a telling indicator of personal and collective identity.1 How individuals in the late Middle Ages saw death in relation to a personal life story, a family and affinity network, the local community, organised religion and God, has been investigated primarily through last wills and testaments, with additional insight gained from the material evidence of some high-class burial monuments: …
The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society
1All Souls College, Oxford The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R. B. Dobson. Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium Caroline M. Barron Jenny Stratford Donington Shaun Tyas 2002 398 £ 49.50
The Transformation of Visitation in Thirteenth-Century England
Three things about which most historians of thirteenth-century England would agree are that it was an increasingly governed society, an increasingly Christianized society, and a society undergoing massive social change owing to demographic and economic growth.1 Despite some fertile and persuasive connections made by Richard Britnell between commercialization, institutional growth and literacy, the relationships between such familiar interpretativ…
The archive of the official of Stow and the 'machinery' of church government in the late thirteenth century
The government and administration of the late medieval church is often said to have relied upon bureaucratic ‘machinery’. Using unpublished documents from the archive of Benedict of Ferriby, official of the archdeacon of Stow in the later thirteenth century, the author argues that bureaucracy was not simply mechanical and that ecclesiastical administration depended on personal relations and local knowledge. The operation of pastoral care and eccl…
A Social History of England 1200-1500
The editors of this excellent collection of essays have, independently of one another, already acquired reputations for writing and editing books that are both intellectually stimulating and well suited for the undergraduate audience. Together, they have done it again. Defining social history more broadly than has been the case in the past, the essays in this book take in much of the ground claimed by a ‘cultural history’ that once seemed set to …
Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale
Journal Article Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson Get access Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, ed. Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005; pp. xxii + 448. Eur 90). Ian Forrest Ian Forrest Oriel College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 497, June 2007, P…
The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society
1All Souls College, Oxford The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R. B. Dobson. Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium Caroline M. Barron Jenny Stratford Donington Shaun Tyas 2002 398 £ 49.50
Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England
Journal Article Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England Get access Ian Forrest Ian Forrest Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 482, June 2004, Pages 781–782, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.482.781 Published: 01 June 2004
A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans
The Dangers of Diversity
When John Edward of Brington in Northamptonshire abjured heresy in the ‘Greneyerd’ of Norwich cathedral close on Palm Sunday 1405, he was presented to the gathered crowds as a living example of the dangers of diversity in the Christian faith. Because heresy was feared as a fundamental challenge to doctrine, authority, and social harmony, the agents of Church and crown went to great lengths in the period between 1382 and the Reformation to adverti…
Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre‐Reformation England
Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale
Journal Article Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson Get access Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, ed. Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005; pp. xxii + 448. Eur 90). Ian Forrest Ian Forrest Oriel College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 497, June 2007, P…
A Social History of England 1200-1500
The editors of this excellent collection of essays have, independently of one another, already acquired reputations for writing and editing books that are both intellectually stimulating and well suited for the undergraduate audience. Together, they have done it again. Defining social history more broadly than has been the case in the past, the essays in this book take in much of the ground claimed by a ‘cultural history’ that once seemed set to …
Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London
This book is a study of marriage and sex in social context, looked at through the prism of litigation in the ecclesiastical and (to a lesser extent) civic courts of London in the (mostly late) fifteenth century. The archival sources are extremely rich, the subject is intrinsically interesting, and late medieval London is an increasingly popular area of study. Shannon McSheffrey has more than done justice to this promising raw material. What first…
William Swinderby and the Wycliffite Attitude to Excommunication
The early Wycliffite William Swinderby expressed some strong criticisms of excommunication. He was alarmed that churchman thought that it was their power, rather than God's power, that consigned a soul to hell. The rhetoric of sentences of excommunication in this period was indeed intended to frighten offenders into compliance with ecclesiastical judgements, but the theory and practice of excommunication was in fact far less simple that the Wycli…
The Politics of Burial in Late Medieval Hereford
BURIAL has long been seen by historians and archaeologists as a telling indicator of personal and collective identity.1 How individuals in the late Middle Ages saw death in relation to a personal life story, a family and affinity network, the local community, organised religion and God, has been investigated primarily through last wills and testaments, with additional insight gained from the material evidence of some high-class burial monuments: …
What is a Lollard? Dissent and Belief in Late Medieval England, by J. Patrick Hornbeck II
This is a welcome contribution to the history of belief in late medieval England: the author, J. Patrick Hornbeck, is a theologian sympathetic to historians’ concerns and well versed in the literary scholarship in the field. His argument—that there was change and diversity within what we call lollardy—is not wholly original but his method and exposition are. For many historians, a comment on diversity has been the footnote to the study of a coher…
The archive of the official of Stow and the 'machinery' of church government in the late thirteenth century
The government and administration of the late medieval church is often said to have relied upon bureaucratic ‘machinery’. Using unpublished documents from the archive of Benedict of Ferriby, official of the archdeacon of Stow in the later thirteenth century, the author argues that bureaucracy was not simply mechanical and that ecclesiastical administration depended on personal relations and local knowledge. The operation of pastoral care and eccl…
Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century
Why the Middle Ages Matter
Medieval historians sometimes feel as though they are working in a field remote from the interests of modern historians and social scientists, even though the middle ages is a source of fascination to the wider reading and viewing public. The present book gathers essays on various modern ‘injustices’ (broadly defined), and each author attempts to show what medieval conditions, attitudes, and experiences can contribute to debate on the modern issu…
The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England
Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in t…
Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing, by Edwin Craun
The Transformation of Visitation in Thirteenth-Century England
Three things about which most historians of thirteenth-century England would agree are that it was an increasingly governed society, an increasingly Christianized society, and a society undergoing massive social change owing to demographic and economic growth.1 Despite some fertile and persuasive connections made by Richard Britnell between commercialization, institutional growth and literacy, the relationships between such familiar interpretativ…
Continuity and Change in the Institutional Church
Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc
Journal Article Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc: Fear Not the Madness of the Raging Mob Get access Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc: Fear Not the Madness of the Raging Mob. By Patricia Turning. Leiden: Brill. 2013. 199pp. £86.00. ISBN 978 9 0042 3464 2. Ian Forrest Ian Forrest Oriel College, Oxford Search for other works by this author o…
The Making of Medieval Antifraternalism
‘Antifraternalism’ has become a term commonly used in medieval studies to refer to the criticism of friars; that is, members of the uncloistered religious orders that developed in Europe from the early thirteenth century. In this long essay, Guy Geltner makes the argument that what has hitherto been seen largely as a literary discourse and as a precondition of the Protestant reformation can, in fact, only be understood if social history is brough…
Trust and Doubt
In governing their dioceses late medieval bishops faced significant epistemological challenges: how was it possible to determine the truth in disputes over local customs, patronage, the conduct of divine service and the provision of pastoral care? All such problems demanded an adjudication between competing stories about rights, history and usage, and while canon law provided a framework of principles, it did not provide the answers bishops neede…
The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages
This concise and compelling book by Gervase Rosser is the distillation of many years’ original research and deep thought about guilds in medieval Europe. In it, he sweeps aside the casual assumptions of the existing historiography and sets out a bold and absorbing new thesis. All future historians of guilds, as well as historians of social, economic and religious life in the later Middle Ages more generally, should consider its arguments very car…
The Thirteenth-Century Visitation Records of the Diocese of Hereford
When visitation of the laity became a regular feature of parish and diocesan life towards the end of the thirteenth century, it relied upon new forms of documentation. Three visitation records of the late thirteenth century from Hereford diocese are edited here, and the character of the documents, produced under the pioneering bishops Thomas Cantilupe and Richard Swinfield, is described and analysed. The authors discuss the reasons for the emerge…
Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble
Legal records are attractive to social historians because they often contain stories about lower status people. They hold out the tantalising prospect of following the deeds, relationships, and even thoughts and motivations of a wide variety of historical actors. But this ‘allure of the archive’, as Arlette Farge calls it, has the potential to convince historians of a fallacy: that the stories people told about crime are a window onto life as it …
Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy
The contribution of Bruce Campbell to medieval economic and social history, honoured in this volume, has been second to none. In his own words, Campbell’s research career has been built around doing the same thing again and again, only on a bigger and bigger scale with each iteration. To a great extent this is true: he has exemplified the modelling and interpretation of crop yields, demographic information and other economic data for many years, …
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