...Nicolette Zeeman The use of debate in Piers Plowman and Dives and Pauper is a response to a long-standing conversionary challenge faced by pastoral carers: the social and psychological variety of the flock—“lay multiplicity.” Dives and Pauper represents this in the huge spectrum of Dives' questions...

..., was a leper. The parable of the rich man Dives and his rejection of the pauper Lazarus, “full of sores,” widely disseminated in the Middle Ages, was also cast as a leper story, in which the long-suffering Lazarus was received into the bosom of Abraham and Dives cast into hell (Luke 16:23...

... exposition of the Lord’s Prayer, or the dialogic Dives and Pauper, a sustained and carefully laicized account of the Ten Commandments. In fifteenth-­century English cities, as Sarah Rees Jones and Shannon McSheffrey have shown, the extended, hierarchi- cal household unit played a vital role...

.... A. Clark (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 207 – 25. 52 “Qherof seruyn þese ymagys? I wolde þe weryn brent euerychon” [To what purpose do these images serve? I wish that every one of them were burned]. Priscilla Heath Barnum, ed., Dives and Pauper, 2 vols. in 3...

... in well-­known texts like Dives and Pauper, Piers Plowman, The Canterbury Tales, or The Pore Caitif.77 Reginald Pecock in his Donet asserts that the belief God could “be charmed, constreyned, and drawn bi vertu of þe wordis” was “not fer from wicchecraft.”78 The 1395 Lollard Twelve Conclusions...