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Leading by Example: The Pastoral Pedagogy of John Mirk's 'Festial'

Dixon, KatherineUniversity of Cambridge2022

… to the late-fourteenth-century sermon collection John Mirk’s Festial is clear in its target audience: those clerics ‘defaute of bokus and sympulnys of letture’ whose shortcomings, both in knowledge and vocational aptitude, he sought to remedy. While Mirk here directs his anxieties towards the …

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