This study examines the complex relationship between theological
conviction and artistic expression among a diverse group of
religious dissidents. Kendall argues that there existed a
distinctly radical tradition of dissent poetics whose presence may
be discerned among the popularizers of Wycliffite ideas, the
Edwardian hot gospelers, and the Elizabethan Puritans. These
religious reformers challenged the mainstream of literary thought
in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Originally published in 1986.
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