The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry
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Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of English writing, in part as a result of the mass underemployment of clerks originally trained for the church but unable to find steady positions in it. Surviving instead as ecclesiastical or...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812252632
ISBN13:9780812252637
Release Date:May 2021
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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