Piers Plowman and the new anticlericalism / Wendy Scase.
The medieval English poem Piers Plowman is noted for its attacks on the clergy. The later fourteenth century, when the poem was written, is often thought of as an anticlerical age. This book is an extended investigation of the anticlericalism of the poem. Dr Scase challenges the usual assumption tha...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
4. |
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