Clerkliness

And yet here in this Sermon of Jonah is no great curiousness, not great clerkliness, no great affectation of words, nor painted eloquence; it was none other but, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed;" it was no more.

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I would argue that Ogrin is significant preciesly for the way in which these two aspects of clerkliness are intertwined: his moral guidance falters at the very moment when his literary skill is most apparent, when he rewrites the story of Tristan and Iseut in a letter designed to reconcile the lovers with King Marc.

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The posture of 'clerkliness' adopted at the beginning of Sir Gowther might be read as the poet's attempt to clothe himself in a similarly ' scientific ' , Hippocratic aura . Learned Latin discourse on demons itself often insists on its own 'clerkliness' in this context — its own indebtedness to a distinctively bookish tradition of intellectual investigation —in very much the same way the Sir Gowther does, and for much the same reasons.

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The letter found in the hut is also somewhat different, for while at the Encantadas he was informed that, not only did it evince a certain clerkliness, but was full of the strangest satiric effrontery which does not adequately appear in Porter's version.

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