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By Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 256. $49.50.
This book's thesis is that Langland's prophetic self-awareness is defined by his indebtedness to "Latin religious prophecy" (p. 2), sources that embody what Kerby-Fulton calls a "new" apocalypticism (i.e., the meliorist exegetical works of Joachim of Fiore and his imitators as well as visionary materials derived from Hildegard of Bingen). These sources share a tendency to project apocalyptic events forward "into a period long before the End of the World" and emphasize the importance of clerical reform and the miraculous renewal of the entire Church. Kerby-Fulton sees them ...