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title	:	Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry
author	:	Matsuda, Takami.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin	:	0859915077
print isbn13	:	9780859915076
ebook isbn13	:	9780585180182
language	:	English
subject	Didactic poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism, Death--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism, Purgatory--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-150
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PR317.D4M38 1997eb
ddc	:	821/.05093548/0902
subject	:	Didactic poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism, Death--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism, Purgatory--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-150

Page i Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry Purgatory has been the focus of much literary and historical attention since Jacques Le Goff's important NaissanceduPurgatoire (1981), but this is the first book-length study to trace its development, reception and influence in Middle English literature from the twelfth to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Following a survey of the doctrine of Purgatory and its cultural reception, the book explores the two major Middle English genres in which it is discussed: visions of the afterlife, and didactic and homiletic treatises on death. In a detailed examination of these, along with sermons and lyrics, the author argues that such writings tend to be structured around the dualism of salvation and damnation, heaven and hell, with no intermediary alternative. Descriptions of Purgatory are often 'infernalised' as a warning against excessive hope, but at the same time the efficacy of intercession in the alleviation of suffering is repeatedly stressed. The book suggests that the influence of Purgatory was to provide a more pragmatic attitude towards death and the afterlife through the acquisition and application of worldly wisdom and prudence. This attitude, reflected in such poems as the Vernon lyrics and writings on the ages of man, contributed optimism and pragmatism to the otherwise predominantly homiletic character of Middle English poems and treatises on death. TAKAMI MATSUDA is Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Keio University. His degrees include D.Phil. from the University of York.

Page iii Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry Takami Matsuda

Page iv Takami Matsuda 1997 AllRightsReserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1997 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 0 85991 507 7 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 146044126, USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Matsuda, Takami, 1958` Death and purgatory in Middle English didactic poetry / Takami Matsuda. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-85991-507-7 (acid-free paper) 1. Didactic poetry, English (Middle) History and criticism. 2. Death Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600`1500. 3. Christian poetry, English (Middle) History and criticism. 4. Purgatory History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600`1500. 5. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. 6. Purgatory in literature. 7. Death in literature. I. Title. PR317.D4M38 1997 821 '.05093548'0902-dc21 97-18534 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Page v Contents List of Illustrations vi Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 The Doctrine of Purgatory and Late Medieval Attitudes Towards Death and the Afterlife 5 2 The Reception of Purgatory in Late Medieval Didactic Literature and Art 34 The Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Latin Visions of Purgatory 34 The English Visionary Texts on Purgatory in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 60 The Discussion of Purgatory in Middle English Didactic and Homiletic Treatises 78 The Iconography of Purgatory in Late Medieval Art

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