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Ethics and power in medieval English reformist writing /
The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
76. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511677038 0511677030 0521199328 9780521199322 9780511676192 0511676190 9781107412538 1107412536 1107205603 9781107205604 1282536036 9781282536036 9786612536038 6612536039 0511678290 9780511678295 0511681526 9780511681523 0511683502 9780511683503 0511679548 9780511679544 |