Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England
Subtitle: A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 19, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198208518
Description: "Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to which it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter. His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians."--Jacket.