The Lamenting Laity
Nuggets of Gold: The Lamenting LaityA wise professor of mine once said to me "Every piece of historical evidence is a nugget of pure gold". "Wow" I thought, what a precious commodity. Could every piece of evidence hold such importance that it can be easily comparable to one of the most precious metals on earth? The answer is that it is easily comparable and exceedingly important. Evidence of a historical nature is in a sense more precious than any nugget of gold. A nugget of gold is good for a limited number of things: currency, the enhancement of beauty, and any extraneous circumstances linked with those two base uses. In a sense, evidence is like gold whereas every bit of it is precious, and should be treasured and handled with care. Historical evidence is something from which countless information can be drawn. It can be used over and over again to open doors and solve puzzles that develop as new information is discovered elsewhere. Evidence gives a more comprehensive and less biased view to the historians' perspective. Just as gold has been known to bring pleasure and pain to humankind, historical evidence can bring insight just as well as confusion. If it does bring confusion, the historian must remember that e
He was of the belief that "lay rulers could rightfully deprive sinful clerics of their ecclesiastical holdings" (Andrea p. The two sources that will be discussed in this paper in terms of evidence are "Concerning the Pope" by John Wyclif, (Andrea p. She might have wanted to prove to the people in her town that their ideas about her when she was "wonderfully vexed and labored with spirits for half a year, eight weeks and some odd days" (Kempe p. In Andrea it is mentioned that it is a "simplified" text and furthermore "In order to avoid confusion, the editor has rendered the text into modern English (Andrea p. And has now reformed to a woman who will not even sleep with her own husband and will not wear any garments except plain white robes. The Medieval Record New York, Houghton Mifflin Company,19972. It is evident that he originally intended this document for ecclesiastics, perhaps the Pope specifically, because it was originally written in Latin. Wyclif set the stage for the some of the hardships of Margery's travels. This copy of "Concerning the Pope" could have been transcribed either by Wyclif himself, or by a later Lollard follower. Nor in that manner of way as you have done before though you would" (Kempe p. Wyclif wants radical reform, and he wants it immediately. This is not unusual because Margery Kempe most likely did not have any formal schooling. The circumstances surrounding the composition of this document are the Great Schism (see pg 4) and the presence of Lollards and other heretics in England. 396)The intent of this document is simple.
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