pt. I. The Structures of Traditional Religion. A. Liturgy, Learning and the Laity. 1. Seasons and Signs: the Liturgical Year. The Ceremonies of Holy Week. Sacred Place, Sacred Time. "Sacred" and "Secular" Time? 2. How the Plowman learned his Paternoster. Priests, People, and Catechesis. The Impact of Catechesis: Imagery and Dramatic Evidence. The Impact of Literacy: Lay Didactic and Devotional Collections. The Coming of Print. B. Encountering the Holy. 3. The Mass. Seeing the Host. Seeing and Believing. "Dredd" into "Sweetness" Spectators or Participants? Lay Religion and the Mass. Praying the Mass: the Individual's Experience. Praying the Mass: Privatization? Praying the Mass: the Parochial Experience. Making the Peace. 4. Corporate Christians. Guild and Parish. 5. The Saints. The Saints in their Images. "The debt of interchanging neighborhood" Old and New Allegiances. Holiness and Help. Coins, Candles, and Contracts. Gift, Grace, and Fellow-feeling. Pilgrimage. St Walstan of Bawburgh.