Edwin D. Craun

Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how medieval Christians were encouraged to rebuke the sins of others, especially clerical authorities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521199322
• ISBN-10: 0521199328
• Artikelnr.: 28529061

Inhaltsangabe

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.