`a richly informative account of the changing temper and manifestations of lay spirituality in the York diocese in the century following the archiepiscopate of John Thoresby (1352-73), whose administrative reforms and influential guidelines for pastoral care fostered both a flourihing eremitic movement and a growth in lay devotionalism ... lucid and fascinating exposition of the nature and determining factors of late medieval spirituality'. YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES 69