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Fifteenth century - Coggle Diagram
Fifteenth century
literature - literary figures that made significant contribution.
John Mandeville (1300-1371)
Father of ''english prose'
Famous work
"The travel of Sir John Mandeville" - the travels memoir which first circulated between 1357 and 1371- earliest surviving text in French.
translated in many languages and acquired popularity
Proved that prose was suited for far wider purposes than that of keeping prosaic records and chronicles
John Wycliffe
(1320 - 1384)
Arousing new spirit of independence and moral earnestness which heralded the Reformation
Attacked the privilege status of the clergy and the luxury and pomp of local parishes and their ceremonies
Completed the translation of the bible into the common vernacular -
Wycliffe bible
His followers were known as
Lollards
advocating
predestination
(all events have been willed by god)
Iconoclasm
(destruction of icons and other images and monuments - for religion or political reasons)
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caesaropapism
(making secular authority superior to spiritual authority of the church)
John Grower
(1330 - 1448)
Chief work -
Confession Amantis
consists of collection of romantic stories held together by a slender thread of narrative
genuine poetic quality
christian structure of confession - narrative frame
Wrote three long poems -
Speculam Melantis
in French
Vox Clamantis
in Latin
Confessio Amantis
in English
William Langland
( 1332 - 1387)
man of masses - challenged the church and it's beliefs
Attacks -
the social and ecclesiastical abuses of the day
Avarice (extreme greed) and tyranny of the aristocracy
Great works
" The Pilgrim's Progress"
- arises out of dream and take human soul through the fouls and vices of life.
" Piers - The Plowman"
- 1360 -87 -- an allegory; with complex religious themes
Similarities between Wycliffe and Langland
questioned the indulgences and pilgrimages
promoted the use of value vernacular in preaching
attacked clerical corruption and advocated dis-endowment.
Geoffery Chaucer (1343 - 1400)
born in 1340, London
well known as the "father of english poetry" or "the morning star of renaissance"
"Prince of plagiarists"
"Father of English novel"
claims to be the "first great national poet og England"
famous as one of the main world's three or four story tellers