Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Kuczynski, Michael P.
Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xxx, 292 pp.
- Description
- Studies the influence of the book of Psalms on moral discourse in late-medieval England.
- Surveys the tradition of psalms commentary from St. Augustine to Richard Rolle's English "Psalter," describes how psalms were used to encourage contrition in religious literature, and assesses the use of psalms for social and political complaint.
- Gives significant attention to Lollard texts, William Langland, John Lydgate, and miscellaneous works on verse and prose and makes brief references to Chaucer's Parson and Monk.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.