📱 eBook en inglés SIX ECCLESIASTICAL SATIRES

This volume would comprise a great unit on anticlerical poetry in late medieval England, collecting Piers the Plowmans Crede, The Plowmans Tale, Jack Upland, Friar Daws Reply, Uplands Rejoinder, and Why I Cant Be a Nun. These Middle English poems attack ecclesiastical corruption; most of the poems were written by disgruntled Lollards about clerics and friars in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. Piers the Plowmans Crede deals with a poor man trying to learn the Apostles Creed from friars, who cannot teach him and only want his money; eventually the man can only learn the creed from Piers the Plowman. The Plowmans Tale casts an anticlerical tale in the mold of one of the Canterbury Tales. Jack Upland, Friar Daws Reply, and Uplands Rejoinder comprise a debate over the hypocrisy of friars. Meanwhile, Why I Cant Be a Nun decries the sins of nuns in convents. These texts are well glossed and include introductions and copious notes, making them approachable for students of Middle English of any level of experience.