RT Article
T1 Combining Microhistorical and Field Theory Approaches: Lay Popular Religious Practice in England during the Long Fifteenth Century
JF Church history and religious culture
VO 99
IS 3/4
SP 440
OP 464
A1 Salter, Elisabeth 1972-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1685705944
AB The purpose of this article is to explore the frictions and potentials endemic in combining microhistorical and field theory approaches, using popular religion in England in the long fifteenth century as an example. In two case studies, concerning basic catechetical texts and the last wills and testaments created by a wide spectrum of the population, the article analyzes how micro- and macro-historical investigation can be tied together. Crucially, micro examples do not simply illustrate but rather add to our knowledge of the general picture. Where micro examples offer a corrective to a general picture there is potential for friction. However, the article also proposes that it is valuable to use Bourdieusian concepts of the cultural field to inventorize the micro evidence in the process of understanding historical situations and transitions more broadly.
K1 England
K1 Catechisms
K1 Clergy
K1 Laity
K1 last will and testament
K1 lay devotion
K1 Manuscript studies
K1 microhistory
DO 10.1163/18712428-09903007