'If heaven be on this earth, it is in a cloister or in school': The Monastic Ideal in Later Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek
'If heaven be on this earth, it is in a cloister or in school': The Monastic Ideal in Later Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones, eds. Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2001, pp. 11-25.
- Description
- Late-medieval changes in monastic life affected the presentation of monks in secular English literature, including works by Langland, Chaucer, and Lydgate. Chaucer's presentation of monks in GP, MkT, and ShT reflects the "new monk," who uses practical abilities for spiritual good.
- Contributor
- Horrox, Rosemary, ed.
- Jones, Sarah Rees, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Shipman and His Tale.