The Politics of Consuming Worldly Goods: Negotiating Christian Discipline and Feudal Power in Piers Plowman
In passus 15 of the C-text of Piers Plowman, Will meets a doctor of divinity at a feast and is outraged by his simultaneous learning and consumption. The doctor mouths a doctrinally “unobjectionable” definition of Dowel, but Will accuses him of being uncharitable to the poor anyway (15.113–16, 76a)....
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| Language: | English |
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2004
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Traditio
Year: 2004, Volume: 59, Pages: 339-368 |
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| Summary: | In passus 15 of the C-text of Piers Plowman, Will meets a doctor of divinity at a feast and is outraged by his simultaneous learning and consumption. The doctor mouths a doctrinally “unobjectionable” definition of Dowel, but Will accuses him of being uncharitable to the poor anyway (15.113–16, 76a). What conspicuously gives away the emptiness of his religious discourse, to Will and to us modern readers as well, is the enormous appetite of this man for the “manye sondry metes, mortrewes and poddynges, / Brawen and bloed of gees, bacon and colhoppes” (15.66–67). |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900002592 |