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Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing.
Title:
Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing.
Author:
Craun, Edwin D.
ISBN:
9780511681523
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; v.76

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial practices, translations, abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Universalizing correction as a moral practice -- Pastoral power and sin -- Out of the monastery -- Major sources -- Sharing in pastoral reform: fraternal correction as moral practice -- Pastoral power and power relations -- Chapter 2 Negotiating contrary things -- Universalist charity and avoiding intrusiveness -- The dangers of hypocrisy and the imperatives of charity -- Good repute and the common good -- Courtliness and harshness -- Moral authority -- Chapter 3 Managing the rhetoric of reproof: the B-version of Piers Plowman -- Branding reproof as deviant: the galled horse bites back -- Clergie and the corrector's integrity -- Abiding by law: the "lewed" person's authority to correct communal sin publicly -- Mismade reproof: fallible will -- Licensing reformist fiction -- Chapter 4 John Wyclif: disciplining the English clergy and the Pope -- Chapter 5 Wycliffites under oppression: fraternal correction as polemical weapon -- The true corrector -- Wresting pastoral care from the clergy -- Chapter 6 Lancastrian reformist lives: toeing the line while stepping over it -- The truth-teller in political life: mum and the sothsegger -- The holy woman: margery kempe the impeccable corrector -- Postscript -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscripts -- Editions -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index.
Abstract:
Explores how medieval Christians were encouraged to rebuke the sins of others, especially clerical authorities.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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