Six Ecclesiastical Satires

by Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS)

This volume would comprise a great unit on anticlerical poetry in late medieval England, collecting Piers the Plowman's Crede, The Plowman's Tale, Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, Upland's Rejoinder, and Why I Can't 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 Plowman's Crede deals with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879288052
• ISBN13: 9781879288058
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 256 Pages