John Mirk's Festial

First full analysis of John Mirk''s Festial, of particular importance for the evidence it offers for the debate over medieval heresy and orthodoxy.

`Marvellously perceptive and insightful''. FIONA SOMERSET, Duke University.Written with largely uneducated rural congregations in mind, John Mirk''s Festial became the most popular vernacular sermon collection of late-medieval England, yet until relativ...