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Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594 - Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy (Paperback)
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Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594 - Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy (Paperback)
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From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly
polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to
major Reformation writers such as Simon Fish, William Tyndale and
John Bale, and into the 1590s, this book argues for a vital
reassessment of our understanding of the literary and cultural
modes of the Reformation. It argues that the ostensibly
revolutionary character of early Protestant literary culture was
deeply indebted to medieval satirical writing and, indeed, can be
viewed as a remarkable crystallization of the textual movements and
polemical personae of a rich, combative tradition of medieval
writing which is still at play on the London stage in the age of
Marlowe and Shakespeare. Beginning with a detailed analysis of
Piers Plowman, this book traces the continued vivacity of combative
satirical personae and self-fashionings that took place in an
appropriative movement centred on the figure of the medieval
labourer. The remarkable era of Protestant 'plowman polemics' has
too often been dismissed as conventional or ephemeral writing too
stylistically separate to be linked to Piers Plowman, or held under
the purview of historians who have viewed such texts as sources of
theological or documentary information, rather than as vital
literary-cultural works in their own right. Radical Pastoral,
1381-1594 makes a vigorous case for the existence of a highly
politicised tradition of 'polemical pastoral' which stretched
across the whole of the sixteenth century, a tradition that has
been largely marginalised by both medievalists and early
modernists.
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