12 books found
Containing an almanac; civil and judicial list; with political, statistical and other information respecting the State of New York and the United States.
by Illinois. Supreme Court, Sidney Breese, Jonathan Young Scammon, Charles Gilman, Ebenezer Peck, Norman Leslie Freeman, Isaac Newton Phillips, Samuel Pashley Irwin, Edwin Hill Cooke
1899
by New York (State). Supreme Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Ernest Hitchcock
1884
by Edwin D. Craun
2010 · Cambridge University Press
The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses.