Description
Much medieval anticlerical satire stems from perceived discrepancies between proclaimed ideal and everyday reality, but it also owes much to a particularly successful literary tradition and cannot be accepted without question. After identifying the predominant literary characteristics of the medieval Portuguese clergy, this study uses other sources – sermons, exempla, visitation documents, doctrinal tracts, confession manuals and chronicles – to gauge clerical success or failure in fundamental areas of responsibility: attending and convoking councils and synods, carrying out visitations and preaching. It reveals the contrast between the literary stereotypes and documentary evidence. Other Literary History Books 2013 – Toward a Theory of Anglo-Saxon Humor: Old English Riddles, Poetry, Prose and Illuminations 2004 – Cervantine Satire and Folk Syncretism in Paulo De Carvalho-Netos Latin-american Novel mi To Atahualpa 1991 – Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Literature Blanc Sanglier
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