The Work of Reform Alberto Pellai In the first detailed study

In the first detailed study of papal penitentiary materials on marriage

They teach us the fundamental importance of everyday human destiny and earthly life--not just for humanity

This drift

and that requires placing it within a metaphysical and theological realm in which the good is much more definitive than right

The Work of Reform Alberto Pellai In the first detailed studyThe Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and improvement in Britain and Ireland, culminating with Edmund Spenser's colonial writing. William Rhodes brings together a rich poetic archive with agrarian husbandry manuals, prose polemics, and imperial tracts