This book addresses the need for scholarly attention to the field
of alternative, non-Augustinian apocalypticism and its implications
for the study of Piers Plowman. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton discusses the
major prophets and visionaries of such alternative traditions, who
are characterised by their denunciation of clerical abuses, the
urging of religious reform, and an ultimate historical optimism.
Her book offers a proposal for the importance of such traditions,
particularly as represented in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen,
to the understanding of Langland's visionary mode and reformist
ideology. Dr Kerby-Fulton also explores the relevance of the
prophetic mentality fostered by Joachite thought, and the
reactionary response which it triggered in antimendicant
eschatology. Above all, this book provides a stimulating challenge
to assumptions that Langland's views of the course and end of
history are wholly conventional, or easily explained by Augustinian
eschatology. The outcome of this study of contexts for Piers
Plowman suggests that Langland's position in relation to different
apocalyptic traditions was at once more sophisticated and more
original than scholars have hitherto realised.
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