1st Edition
Radical Pastoral, 1381–1594 Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy
By Mike Rodman Jones
Copyright 2010
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers such as Simon Fish, William Tyndale and John Bale, and into the 1590s, this book argues for a vital reassessment of our understanding of the literary and cultural modes of the Reformation. It argues that the ostensibly revolutionary character of early... Read more
Contents: Preface; The Ploughman's commonwealth; Polemical pastoralism: the Reformation and before; 'The living ghost of Piers Plowman': the Ploughman in print, 1510-1550; The Elizabethan Ploughman: from 'Piers Marprelate' to Pierce Penniless and back to Piers Plowman; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Mike Rodman Jones is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at The University of Nottingham, UK.
’...Radical Pastoral [should be] on the reading list of anyone interested in ploughman writings and the sixteenth century’s attempts to come to terms with its medieval past.’ Medium Aevum
