Preface Rosemary Horrox; Richard Barrie Dobson: an appreciation John
Taylor; 1. 'If heaven be on this earth, is it in cloister or in school':
the monastic ideal in later medieval English literature Derek Pearsall; 2.
The 'chariot of Aminadab' and the Yorkshire priory of Swine Janet Burton;
3. 'Godliness and good learning': ideals and imagination in medieval
university and college foundations Robert Swanson; 4. Hugh of Balsham,
bishop of Ely 1256/7-1286 Roger Lovatt; 5. A cruel necessity? Christ's and
St John's, two Cambridge re-foundations Malcolm Underwood; 6. Coventry's
'Lollard' programme of 1492 and the making of Utopia P. J. P. Goldberg; 7.
Thomas More's Utopia and medieval London Sarah Rees Jones; 8. Social
exclusivity or justice for all? Access to justice in fourteenth-century
England Anthony Musson; 9. Idealising criminality: Robin Hood in the
fifteenth century A. J. Pollard; 10. Fat Christian and Old Peter: ideals
and compromises among the medieval Waldensians Peter Biller; 11. Imageless
devotion: what kind of an ideal? Margaret Aston; 12. An English anchorite:
the making, unmaking and remaking of Christine Carpenter Miri Rubin; 13.
Victorian values in fifteenth-century England: the Ewelme almshouse
statutes Colin Richmond; 14. Puritanism and the poor Patrick Collinson; 15.
Realising a Utopian dream: the transformation of the clergy in the diocese
of York, 1500-1630 Claire Cross; Bibliography of Barrie Dobson's published
works.
