The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy

An 1860 edition of an account of accusations made against practices within the late medieval church, and a bishop's answers.

Reginald Pecock (Author), Churchill Babington (Edited by)

9781108043045, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

426 pages, 1 colour illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.62 kg

This two-volume work is valuable for both religious and linguistic history. A vernacular text written in a period of division within the Church and widespread popular religious discontent, it provides a record of the arguments that fuelled this division. Reginald Pecock (c.1392–c.1459) recounts the attacks made by Lollard reformers and provides well-composed answers to them. A firm believer in papal supremacy, Pecock insisted on proving doctrine by reason, a position which laid him open to the charges of heresy that dogged his career and eventually led to his disgrace. Editor Charles Babington's introduction to this edition, published in the Rolls Series in 1860, gives biographical and contextual information, and a summary of the works contained within both volumes. In Volume 1, Pecock outlines eleven points of attack and his general answer to them, specifically dealing with vindications of images and pilgrimages, and the revenues of the clergy.

Introduction
Summary of contents
Pecock's Repressor.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]