Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing

Informationen zum Autor Edwin D. Craun is Henry S. Fox! Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University. Klappentext Explores how medieval Christians were encouraged to rebuke the sins of others, especially clerical authorities. Zusammenfassung Explains how the late medieval Church encouraged the practice of fraternal correction! which involved the injured party confronting the wrong-doer directly and privately; and explores how John Wyclif and others expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against clerical authority and wealth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Universalizing the practice of correction; 2. Negotiating contrary things; 3. Managing the rhetoric of reproof: the B-version of Piers Plowman; 4. John Wyclif: disciplining the English clergy and the Pope; 5. Wycliffites under oppression: fraternal correction as polemical weapon; 6. Lancastrian reformist lives: toeing the line while stepping over it.

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• Authors: Edwin D. Craun, Edwin D. (Washington and Lee University Craun, Edwin David Craun
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521199322
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19932-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies