The Priest's Body: Literature and Popular Piety in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Pappano, Margaret Ann.
The Priest's Body: Literature and Popular Piety in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2490A.
- Description
- Explores the sociocultural influence of sacerdotal celibacy on literature. Capable of performing the Mass, the "special body" of the priest became a literary icon, aligned with the Latin language in opposition to Lollardy. Lay writing emerged against clerical restraint, as seen in the concept of the "priest's body" in CT, the play Mankind, and works of Margery Kempe and Margery Baxter.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.