REDE ME AND BE NOTT WROTHE

by Barlowe [Barlow], Jerome, and William Roye [Roy] [edited by Douglas H. Parker]

First Thus

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Book description: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. vii, 247 pp. Editor's introduction, edited text, commentary glossary, bibliography. Reputedly written by Jerome Barlow[e] and William Roy[e], former Fransciscan friars, this is a long pre-Reformation verse satire which unrelentingly and irreverently attacks various aspects of Roman Catholicism as well as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, England's powerful prelate-chancellor in power under Henry VIII from 1515 to 1529. Written probably late in 1527 and published in 1528 in Strasbourg by the Protestant printer Johann Schott, this acerbic indictment of the traditional church was, like other early English Protestant works of the period, too inflammatory and controversial for the authors to publish in their own religiously conservative country. It is an important work not because it presents original ideas but because it is an engagingly populist and humorous work meant to appeal to the common reader, and because it serves as a compendium of many of the complaints against the traditional church. CONDITION: Very minor rubbing to cloth covers.. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm.

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