Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience: A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text

by Sarah Wood and Ralph Hanna

This mid fourteenth-century poem, a discussion of the 'contempt of the world' and the 'Four Last Things', was one of the most popular Middle English texts in its time, as indicated by the large number of extant copies, and illustrations of it in the windows of All Saints, North Street, in York. It was a widely influential compendium of religious instruction, originating in Yorkshire, but more widely disseminated, and thus representing this important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019968099X
• ISBN13: 9780199680993
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Early English Text Society
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"