The Boy Bishop’s Feast
A Case-study in Church Attitudes towards Children in the High and Late Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12033657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shulamith Shahar (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Pages | 243-260 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0424208400012900 |
| OpenAlex | W2331990161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
THE main sources for the boy bishop’s feast are available in print. These include sections in ceremonial- and service-books, cathedral statutes, councils’ decrees, compotus , that is, accounts of the gifts and offerings of money the boy bishop received, as well as his expenses, household books that include registrations of the expenses for the annual entertainment of the boy bishop and his retinue, as well as two sermons the boy bishop delivered. Chambers, in his Medieval Stage , first published in 1903, dedicated a detailed description to the feast. A short reference to the feast appears in most research works on medieval schools and a number of articles have also been published on the subject. I’ll thus refer to the origins of the feast, but describe it only briefly, disregarding variations between places, and then turn to the subject of my paper: the boy bishop’s feast, as reflecting the image of childhood, attitudes towards childhood, and medieval educational conceptions. These are expressed in the feast itself and more clearly in the sermons written by adults to be delivered by the boy bishop
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |