New Book Chapter: The Cult of Corpus Christi

Claire’s latest chapter ‘Power, Piety and Presence: The Cult of Corpus Christi and the 1389 Guild Enquiry in Lincolnshire', has been published in Jessica A. Lutkin and J. S. Hamilton eds. Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II by Boydell and Brewer. In this chapter Claire focuses on the unusual prevalence of Corpus Christi guilds in Late Medieval Lincolnshire, examining their foundation, location and, where possible, membership and office holders, along with their continental connections and influence in their localities. Her chapter also draws some conclusions as to why Lincolnshire had so many Corpus Christi guilds and what this can tell us about patterns of popular piety in the county at the end of the fourteenth century. Copies of Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II can be purchased here.