10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLERKLINESS»
Discover the use of
clerkliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
clerkliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Christine de Pizan and Medieval French Lyric
NADIA MARGOLIS I shall begin by confessing straightaway my intention to
stretch the boundaries of the concepts of clerkliness [clergie] and courtliness [
courtoisie] to some extent, which is not to say that I will abandon them in the
conventional ...
Earl Jeffrey Richards, 1998
2
Translatio Studii: Essays by His Students in Honor of Karl ...
He represents the misdirection or abuse of clerkliness. He figures the "
irresponsible" romance poet whose writings lead readers astray.44 Yvain's
deliberately unclerkly hermit, on the other hand, may reflect a certain
censoriousness on the part ...
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, 2000
3
Calvinist Humor in American Literature
To balance this unattractive quality somewhat, the narrator also acknowledges in
Oberlus “a certain clerkliness . . . [and] the strangest satiric effrontery” (247). This
mysterious mixture of human qualities comes into play when the narrator ...
4
Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England
The posture of 'clerkliness' adopted at the beginning of Sir Gowther might be read
as the poet's attempt to clothe ... on its own 'clerkliness' in this context - its own
indebtedness to a distinctively bookish tradition of intellectual investigation - in ...
Corinne J. Saunders, 2005
5
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
2. Without a clerk. clerkliness (klerk'li-nes), n. [< clerkly + -ness.] Clerkly skill;
scholarliness. [Rare.] In this sermon of Jonah is no great curiousneas, no great
clerkliness, no great affectation of words, nor painted eloquence. Latimer,
Sermon bef.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
The letter found in the hut is also somewhat different ; for while at the Encantadas
he was informed that, not only did it evince a certain clerkliness, but was full of
the strangest satiric effrontery which does not adequately appear in Porter's ...
... yet here in this sermon of Jonas is no great curiousness, no great clerkliness,
no great affectation of words, nor of painted eloquence ; it was none other but,
Adhuc quadraginta dies, et Ninive subvertetur, " Yet forty days, et Ninive
subvertetur ...
... forgetfulness of the speaker. But, as in the case of Shakespeare's
anachronisms, earlier generations were in this respect less critical than our own,
and there is an easy and obvious explanation of Chaucer's insistence on his
clerkliness.
Frederick John Snell, 1899
... Jonas," and his comment upon said sermon, as applied to his own deliverance
of the message God had given him to communicate: — " In this sermon of Jonas
is no great curiousness, no great clerkliness, no great affectation of words, nor of
...
Nathaniel Smith Richardson, Edward Brenton Boggs, Henry Mason Baum, 1880
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Lexicon cornu-britannicum: a dictionary of the ancient ...
(Or gap). Rigol, b. CLERK or CLERGYMAN, s. Cloirec, w. ; cloireg, p.; mab lyen,
w. Mab lyen is, literally, the son of linen. Perhaps from the surplice,
CLERKLINESS, s. Clergy, m. 1378 ; Sur in clergy, surely in clerkliness, m. 1378.
CLEVER, adj.
