Palpable Fictions: Religious Relics, Populist Rhetoric, and the English Reformation
- Author / Editor
- Wheeler, Jeffrey Matthew.
Palpable Fictions: Religious Relics, Populist Rhetoric, and the English Reformation
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3043A
- Description
- Although false relics often figured in polemics, relics were popular through the early Reformation. Attitudes vary less than has been assumed among such writers as Guibert de Nogent, Lorenzo Valla, Wycliffe, Chaucer, Foxe, Latimer, Tyndale, and later Renaissance writers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Pardoner and His Tale.