Lay piety and religious discipline in Middle English literature /

An examination of spiritual discipline, religious identity, and orthodoxy in Langland and Chaucer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rice, Nicole R., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 73.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Translations of the cloister: regulating spiritual aspiration; Chapter 2 Dialogic form and clerical understanding; Chapter 3 Lordship, pastoral care, and the order of charity; Chapter 4 Clerical widows and the reform of preaching; Conclusion Spiritual guides in fifteenth-century books: cultural change and continuity; Notes; Bibliography; Index