Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
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Hardback
£83.50
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 9781580443074
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 15/04/2018
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique.
Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for
polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets
such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack
on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within
depictions of flawed priest-like characters.
1. Introduction: The Sullied Sacrament
2. The Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
3. The Anticlerical Poetics of Cleanness
4. The Reluctant Priest of Patience
5. The Late-Arriving Priest of Pearl
6. The Devilish Priest of Sir Gawain
