SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

Written by anonymous Lollard authors this edition compiles six Middle English anticlerical texts Composed in the late-fourteenth to fifteenth centuries each satirizes friars as greedy disloyal and hypocritical The first two poems invoke Langlands Piers Plowman a humble farmer as a spiritual ideal in contrast to corrupt clerics The alliterative Piers the Plowmans Crede follows a poor man trying to learn the Apostles Creed from friars who try to sw...Seguir leyendo