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Scarica inglese riassunti john wycliff e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JOHN WYCLIFFE AND A LINGUISTIC REVOLUTION John Wycliffe was a theologian. He taught in a oxford university. Wycliffe was an open critic of corruption. The most powerful baron ,John of Gaunt ,brought Wycliffe to preach in London to obtaining more money from the church . Parliament and the king consulted him as to whether or not it was lawful to keep back treasure of the kingdom from Rome , and he replied that it was. His other ideas were even more radical . This caused horror and he was denounced as the first major English heretic. Wycliffe’s writings were repeatedly condemned ,but he was protected by his patrons to be allowed to retire peacefully and die in his own home. An admirer of Wycliffe’s ideas was Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer was inevitably involved in the intellectual and political tensions of his time. Chaucer showed concern for some of the corruption and unchristian habits of some of the clergy in England. In fact his simple Parson in The Canterbury Tales is described as priest Wycliffe would have approved of:( a simple man who loved the Gospels and thought more of his parishioners’ needs than of his own). THE MEDIEVAL BALLAD Ballads have been sung throughout the English speaking world and they can vary both in words and tune while maintaining the same narrative outline. The ballad it tells a dramatic story as a series of rapid flashes. The language is very simple. There is a mixture of dialogue and narration ;ballad narrators do not speak in the first person and they do not comment on their reactions to the emotional content of the story. A four-line stanza is used ,often rhyming ABCB, and a refrain, that is, a repeated line or group of lines. The medieval ballad does provide a description of real characters and also of a supernatural creatures. THE MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE POEM A narrative poem tells a story in verse and contains narrative elements. Collections of stories were very popular in the Middle Ages and they had the purpose of entertaining a narration showing links with the moral views of the time. It provided a insight into individual characters. The greatest example (of narrative poem in medieval literature is Geoffrey Chaucer’s THE CANTERBURY TALES. BEOWULF: A NATIONAL EPIC