Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing by Edwin D Craun
The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses.-
The Book of Memory
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Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England
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The Craft of Thought
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The Medieval Manuscript Book
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Old Icelandic Literature and Society
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Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature
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The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain
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London Literature, 13001380
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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
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Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages
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The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages
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A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
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Navigating Landmarks of Identity in Pre-Conquest English Literature
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Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy
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The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
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Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority
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Chaucer and the Subversion of Form
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Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England
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The European Book in the Twelfth Century
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Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance
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The Wycliffite Heresy
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'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire
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Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400
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Chaucer's Scribes
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Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages
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Dante and the Franciscans
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Writing to the King
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Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature
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Romance and History
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Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature
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Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy
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Imagining Medieval English
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Landscape in Middle English Romance
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Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales
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John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
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The Making of Chaucer's English
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Women Readers in the Middle Ages
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Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
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Fictions of Identity in Medieval France
'.. the book's thematic focus is on the duty that lies upon the Christian, whether cleric or lay, to correct an erring brother, and its chronological and local coverage is the writings of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in England ... Any reader is likely to find much to intrigue and sometimes to provoke here.' Anne Hudson, Medium Aevum
Craun, Edwin D.: - Edwin D. Craun is professor emeritus of English at Washington and Lee University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107412538 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107412536 |
| Title | Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing |
| Author | Edwin D Craun |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medieval Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
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