The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition by Campbell, Ethan

The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580443074)

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The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition by Campbell, Ethan

The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

$99.00
The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition by Campbell, Ethan

The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ethan Campbell
ISBN-10: 1580443079
ISBN-13: 9781580443074
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2018
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d
By Ethan Campbell
By Ethan Campbell
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Ethan Campbell is Associate Professor of English & Literature and Coordinator of the English Major at The King's College in New York City.

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