You might also like

Availability alert

More about Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 158 loyalty points

Book synopsis

The thirteenth-century French comic dits of Les Escommeniemanz au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre are two of the earliest vernacular texts to articulate anticlerical satire against the abuse of excommunications and indulgences. In Les Escommeniemanz, a relentless series of excommunications is promulgated against a broad range of social groups accused of activities ranging from the illegal and the immoral, through the socially disruptive, to the profoundly nonsensical and obscene, while in Le Pardon, a cardinal freshly arrived from Rome offers indulgences to groups whose shocking alleged sexual incontinence appears scarcely to merit pardon. Burrows' new edition of two hitherto unedited poems so important to the understanding of lay attitudes towards ecclesiastical authority in thirteenth-century France is complemented by an English translation and a detailed commentary on the texts' literary, linguistic, codicological, ideological, and socio-historical content and context.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys
• Author: Daron Burrows
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• EAN: 9781904713098
• ISBN: 1904713092
• ID: 05024180
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 155 g
• Dimensions: 292 × 216 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2004

Trending among others

---

---

---