The "Gawain"-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Campbell, Ethan.
The "Gawain"-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition.
- Published
- Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 238 pp.
- Description
- Makes clear the anti-clericalism, overt and implicit, in the works of the "Gawain"-poet ("Cleanness," "Patience," "Pearl," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), examining the theme in light of contemporaneous polemics. Includes several references to CT (especially the Parson and friars) as illustrations of clerical ideals and/or criticism of those who fail or neglect these ideals.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General