All Outputs (3)

From Micro- to Macro-processes of Religious Change (2019)
Journal Article
Lutton, R. (2019). From Micro- to Macro-processes of Religious Change. Church History and Religious Culture, 99(3-4), 412-439. https://doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09903006

The article discusses the Europe-wide late medieval phenomenon of the cult of the Holy Name, using it as a case study to discuss the relationship of micro-and macro-historical transformations by scrutinizing the enormous success of a religious innova... Read More about From Micro- to Macro-processes of Religious Change.

‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions (2018)
Journal Article
Lutton, R. (2018). ‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions. English, 67(257), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efy021

This article examines a particular set of texts in an early fifteenth-century religious anthology composed by the Yorkshire gentleman Robert Thornton. Together with other religious prose and verse, Thornton copied a number of Middle English and Latin... Read More about ‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions.

Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton (2017)
Journal Article
Lutton, R. (2017). Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton. Viator, 48(3), 333-357. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.116358

By 1500 more than 500 written accounts of the Jerusalem pilgrimage alone had been produced in the West, and yet such works continued to be written and, increasingly, printed. How did these works retain their popularity, who was writing them and why?... Read More about Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton.