The Pore Caitif: An Introductory Study
The Pore Caitif is a late fourteenth-century Middle English manual of religious instruction intended for the use of the laity. That the compiler himself applied this title to his manual is extremely doubtful. It seems, rather, to be a convenient label of identification of the treatise drawn from his...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1954
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Traditio
Year: 1954, Volume: 10, Pages: 529-548 |
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| Summary: | The Pore Caitif is a late fourteenth-century Middle English manual of religious instruction intended for the use of the laity. That the compiler himself applied this title to his manual is extremely doubtful. It seems, rather, to be a convenient label of identification of the treatise drawn from his characteristic way of referring to himself: ‘This tretis compilid of a pore caitif'; and again, ‘I my silf caitif and wrecche.' This pseudonym behind which he cloaked his identity must have been transferred, however, at a fairly early date to serve as a title for the treatise, because it appears in several late fourteenth-century manuscripts and in a will proved in 1422. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900005948 |