Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Fletcher, Alan J.
Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-Medieval England
- Published
- Portland, Ore., and Dublin : Four Courts Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- 320 pp.
- Description
- A series of stand-alone studies, most reprinted in revised form from earlier publications. Includes a newly edited and translated Cistercian sermon and a new essay, "Langland and Preaching." Also includes, among other revisions, "Chaucer's Norfolk Reeve" (SAC 7 [1985], no. 147), "The Faith of a Simple Man: Carpenter John's Creed in the 'Miller's Tale'" (SAC 16 [1994], no. 173), "The Preaching of the Pardoner" (SAC 13 [1991], no. 164), "The Topical Hypocrisy of Chaucer's Pardoner" (SAC 14 [1992], no. 217), and "The Summoner and the Abominable Anatomy of Antichrist" (SAC 20 [1998], no.185).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.