The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of English writing, in part as a result of the mass underemployment of clerks originally trained for the church but unable to find steady positions in it. Surviving instead as ecclesiastical or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252632
• ISBN13: 9780812252637
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"