"Summary: The clerical proletariat has been long known to modern historians as an amorphous group of clerically educated men who failed nonetheless to secure a church living or "benefice." The clerical proletariat normally earned much less than their beneficed brethren and were much more numerous: in cities such as London, there were at least four times the number of trained clerics as there were benefices in the late fourteenth century. These men became the underemployed of the clerically educated world. But unbeneficed ...
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"Summary: The clerical proletariat has been long known to modern historians as an amorphous group of clerically educated men who failed nonetheless to secure a church living or "benefice." The clerical proletariat normally earned much less than their beneficed brethren and were much more numerous: in cities such as London, there were at least four times the number of trained clerics as there were benefices in the late fourteenth century. These men became the underemployed of the clerically educated world. But unbeneficed medieval clerks did find employment for themselves across a startling range of professions, some of it unexpectedly productive and rewarding. It is the contention of this book that the unbeneficed contributed disproportionately to the resurgence of Middle English literature, which also, often, contains poetry recording or representing their plight. Needing a day job, they fanned out into a wide range of professions. As such, this amorphous group makes a complex challenge for medieval church historians and scholars of literacy, liturgy, academia, law, and social class-and now especially for literary scholars, because the clerical proletariat has mostly flown under our radar since Pantin"--
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