According to his wise discretion

Studies of late medieval pious endeavour tend to dwell on urban practice and, more particularly, on the investment and surveillance arranged within the parish – focusing on the role that close family and churchwardens played to protect intercessory arrangements. Such ventures, however, also had a civic dimension, examined here. In pre-Reformation Bristol, the mayor and other municipal officers played an active role safeguarding devotional investment; in addition to investigating the oversight of pious practice in this town, the following also makes a start in considering how typical – or not – such effort was

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