{"product_id":"the-praier-and-complaynte-of-the-ploweman-vnto-christe-paperback-softback-9781442655003","title":"The Praier and Complaynte of the Ploweman Vnto Christe (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442655003","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Praier and Complaynte of the Ploweman Vnto Christe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDouglas H. Parker (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442655003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteenth-century English Protestant reformers were hard-pressed to establish a historical pedigree that would provide their ideas with weight and legitimacy. Many of those reformers turned back to early fifteenth-century Lollard texts, recycling and reprinting them to serve the needs, both political and spiritual, of the burgeoning English Protestant reform movement. The anti-clerical and reformist Lollard text, \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe\u003c\/em\u003e, was one of the works used by sixteenth century English Protestants in their struggle for religious reform.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is an old-spelling, critical edition of the version of \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe\u003c\/em\u003ethat resurfaced in the 1530s. Demonstrating the continuity of ideas between the Lollards and the Reformists, Douglas Parker situates \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte\u003c\/em\u003e firmly in the tradition of English Reformist borrowing of texts, and argues for William Tyndale as editor of the sixteenth-century version of \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte\u003c\/em\u003e. Parker examines the two extant copies of the manuscript, and comments on the work's structure and reformist content. He presents full historical, literary, and biographical information in his introduction, and a full line-by-line commentary on the text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis careful, meticulous work is a revealing look at the ideology of Protestant religious struggles in England from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588911526168,"sku":"9781442655003","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-praier-and-complaynte-of-the-ploweman-vnto-christe-paperback-softback-9781442655003","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}