Andrew Cole

Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book restores the Wycliffie heresy to its proper place as the most significant context for late medieval English writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9780521887915
• ISBN-10: 0521887917
• Artikelnr.: 24928767

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Invention of Heresy: 1. The Blackfriars Council, London, 1382
Part II. The Late Fourteenth Century: Canonizing Wycliffism: 2. The invention of 'Lollardy': William Langland
3. The reinvention of 'Lollardy': William Langland and his contemporaries
4. Geoffrey Chaucer's Wycliffite text
Part III. The Early Fifteenth Century: Heretics and Eucharists: 5. Thomas Hoccleve's heretics
6. John Lydgate's Eucharists
Part IV. Feeling Wycliffite: 7. Margery Kempe's 'Lollard' affects
Part V. Epilogue: 8. Heresy, Wycliffism and English literary history
Bibliography
Index.