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The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
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Artikel-Nr:
9781580443081
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.07.2018
Seiten:
254
Autor:
Ethan Campbell
Serie:
21, Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
eBook Typ:
PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet''s Middle English works'' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters.
Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters.
1. Introduction: The Sullied Sacrament 2. The Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism 3. The Anticlerical Poetics ofCleanness 4. The Reluctant Priest ofPatience 5. The Late-Arriving Priest ofPearl 6. The Devilish Priest ofSir Gawain