Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity

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Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity is written by Susan Reynolds and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000683516 (ISBN 10) and 9781000683516 (ISBN 13).

This book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general. Most writing about medieval religious, political, legal, and social ideas starts from treatises written by academics and assumes that ideas trickled down from the clergy to the laity. Susan Reynolds, whether writing about the struggles for liberty of small English towns, the national solidarities of the Anglo-Saxons, or the capacity of medieval peasants to formulate their own attitudes to religion, rejects this assumption. She suggests that the medieval laity had ideas of their own that deserve to be taken seriously.