Pierce the Ploughman's Crede
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Pierce the Ploughman's Crede is a medieval alliterative poem of 855 lines, lampooning the four orders of friars.
The frontispiece of Reyner Wolfe's edition of Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, printed in 1553
Mendicant orders
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Mendicant orders are primarily certain Catholic religious orders that have vowed for their male members a lifestyle of poverty, traveling, and living in urban areas for purposes of preaching, evangeli
Pierce the Ploughman's Crede
…of Bishop Golias" and "The Confession of Golias." The author of the Crede claims that these works tarnished the monastic orders and brought on the mendicant orders, or else Satan himself founded them. With clear Lollard sympathies, the Crede praises John Wycliffe and as well as Walter Brut who is mentioned concerning…
Pope Innocent III approving the statutes of the Order of the Franciscans, by Giotto