{"product_id":"9781442655003","title":"The praier and complaynte of the ploweman unto Christe","description":"\u003cp\u003eSixteenth-century English Protestant reformers were hard-pressed to establish a historical pedigree that would provide their ideas with weight and legitimacy. Many of those reformers turned back to early fifteenth-century Lollard texts, recycling and reprinting them to serve the needs, both political and spiritual, of the burgeoning English Protestant reform movement. The anti-clerical and reformist Lollard text, \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe\u003c\/em\u003e, was one of the works used by sixteenth century English Protestants in their struggle for religious reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an old-spelling, critical edition of the version of \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe\u003c\/em\u003e that resurfaced in the 1530s. Demonstrating the continuity of ideas between the Lollards and the Reformists, Douglas Parker situates \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte\u003c\/em\u003e firmly in the tradition of English Reformist borrowing of texts, and argues for William Tyndale as editor of the sixteenth-century version of \u003cem\u003eThe praier and complaynte\u003c\/em\u003e. Parker examines the two extant copies of the manuscript, and comments on the work's structure and reformist content. He presents full historical, literary, and biographical information in his introduction, and a full line-by-line commentary on the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis careful, meticulous work is a revealing look at the ideology of Protestant religious struggles in England from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300850286832,"sku":"9781442655003","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442655003_p0.jpg?v=1763807504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442655003","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}