"Anticlericalism," Inter-Clerical Polemic, and Theological Vernaculars.

Author / Editor
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis.

Title
"Anticlericalism," Inter-Clerical Polemic, and Theological Vernaculars.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 494-526.

Description
Reassesses "anti-clericalism," reframing what has been "a concept useful within very real limits" as a kind of inter-clerical polemic, as most of these examples of so-called anti-clericalism are clerically authored. Treats MkT and PardT as examples of inter-clerical polemic. Includes discussion of SNT and Chaucer's fluency in "theological vernacularizing."

Contributor
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn
Mayus, Melissa
Bugyis, Katie Ann-Marie

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Pardoner and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Language and Word Studies
Second Nun and Her Tale