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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of a medieval literary tradition that grew out of opposition to the mendicant fraternal orders. Penn R. Szittya argues that the widespread attacks on the friars in late medieval poetry, especially in Ricardian England, drew on an established tradition that originated in the polemical theology, eschatology, and Biblical exeges
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION. The Puzzle of Sire Penetrans Domos, pg. 1*ONE. William of St. Amour and the Perils of the Last Times, pg. 11*TWO. William of St. Amour in England: Circulation and Dissemination, pg. 62*THREE. The Antifaternal Ecclesiology of Archbishop Richard FitzRalph, pg. 123*FOUR. John Wyclif and the Nominalist, pg. 152*FIVE. The English Poetic Tradition, pg. 183*SIX. Chaucer and Antifraternal Exegesis: The False Apostle of the Summoner's Tale, pg. 231*SEVEN. The Friars and the End of Piers Plowman, pg. 247*APPENDIX A: Sources of Omne Bonum, Article "Fratres", pg. 291*APPENDIX B: Sources ofBodl. 784, Part 3 and Collation with Omne Bonum, Article "Fratres", pg. 296*GENERAL INDEX, pg. 301*INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES, pg. 313*INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS, pg. 315
