Reginald Pecock, Churchman and Man of Letters (Classic Reprint): A Study in Fifteenth Century, English Prose, a Dissertation, Submitted to the Faculty ... Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Phi - Softcover

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Excerpt from Reginald Pecock, Churchman and Man of Letters: A Study in Fifteenth Century, English Prose, a Dissertation, Submitted to the Faculty of Letters of the Catholic University of America in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

The fifteenth century is one of the most difficult periods for the student of English History to contend with. Due to the absence of documentary evidence a great deal of conjecture and obscurity still surrounds the political, social and religious conditions of the times. However, earnest research of comparatively recent date has cast new light upon this obscurity, and conjecture is giving way to certitude, or at least conclusions are being arrived at that will, perhaps, necessitate the recasting of the traditional viewpoint.

Fifteenth century literature has also suffered from this traditional viewpoint. Scholars in their zeal to set in relief the literary attainments of the thirteenth century or to embellish the phenomenal outburst of sixteenth cen tury originality, have either neglected altogether the fifteenth century, or have exaggerated the lines of con trast, thus leaving the stigma of mediocrity upon a period that is worthy of greater consideration.

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