Ethics and power in medieval English reformist writing
By: Edwin D. Craun.
Series: Cambridge studies in medieval literature -- 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780521199322
Subjects: Admonition -- History -- To 1500; Church renewal -- England -- History -- To 1500; Church discipline -- England -- History -- To 1500; Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism; England -- Church history -- 1066-1485
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.