Publisher's Synopsis
The studies presented in this volume focus on religion and the role it played in late medieval England. They explore various aspects of religious influence: the vitality of popular religion, the effect of prayer on narrative patterns, the impact of the theme of the Passion on the mystics, and the intellectual's relation to his faith. Two contributions on Chaucer examine aesthetics in his religious tales, and the interplay of aesthetics and moral problems in "Troilus" and there are studies of the theology and imaginative texture of "Piers Plowman". Explorations of the theological framework of mystery plays, and of the Protestant influence on Tudor moralities, illustrate the influence of religious ideology on "popular" drama.
