Author: Dean, James [editor]
Title: Six Ecclesiastical Satires
Description: published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, 1995, 2nd impression. Large format paperback, F. vi+250pp, a fine copy. Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 1879288052 ¶ A critical student edition of 6 Middle English alliterative verse satires on religious themes, the six works being - Piers the Plowman's Crede - The Plowman's Tale - Jack Upland - Friar Daw's Reply - Upland's Rejoinder - Why I Can t Be a Nun. The recurring theme is the poems attack upon ecclesiastical corruption ; most were written by disgruntled Lollards about clerics & friars in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century.

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