The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xx, 388 pp.; 52 illus.
- Series
- The Middle Ages.
- Description
- Demonstrates the importance and central role of the "clerical proletariat"--i.e., clerics who worked "in liminal spaces between the ecclesiastical and lay worlds"--in the proliferation of late medieval books and literature in English, with primary focus on works of William Langland, Thomas Hoccleve, John Audelay, their various precedents and legacies, and related genres and forms. Attention to Chaucer's work is generally limited to his "alertness" to issues of clerical employment in GP and characters such as Nicholas in MilT and Jankyn in WBP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale