Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys
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anticlerical satire
Ash Wednesday
Author_Daron Burrows
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Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Dead Man
ecclesiastical authority critique
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Estates Satire
Excommunication Latae Sententiae
indulgence abuse history
La Fosse
lay attitudes toward excommunication
Le Pardon
Leofranc Holford Strevens
Liber Poenitentialis
major
Major Excommunication
medieval French literature
medieval social commentary
pardon
Penitential Canons
Potestas Clavium
Qui Ne
Si La
Thirteenth Century France
Tot Tens
vernacular comic poetry
Villehardouin
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781904713098
- Weight: 204g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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English translation and a detailed commentary on the texts' literary, linguistic, codicological, ideological, and socio-historical content and context.
Daron Burrows is Lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. He has published studies and editions of a number of Old French comic and satirical texts.
