Wendy Scase

Piers Plowman and the New Anticlericalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an extended investigation of the anticlericalism of the medieval English poem Piers Plowman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521044547
• ISBN-10: 0521044545
• Artikelnr.: 23105750

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on quotations and references
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: tradition and the new anticlericalism
2. The usurpation of priestly power and the transformation of an antifraternal satire
3. Poverty: an old controversy and a new polemic
4. Charity: the ground of anticlericalism 5. Antireligious traditions and a new satire in the C-text
6. Clerical dominion and authority in new anticlerical literature
Notes
Bibliography
General index
Index of Piers Plowman citations.