Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry.(Review) From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: EASTING, ROBERT | COPYRIGHT 1998 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Takami Matsuda, Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997), x + 278 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 0-85991-507-7. 35.00 [pounds sterling].

Based on Takami Matsuda's York D.Phil. thesis, this careful, wide-ranging study traces the effects of the popularization of the concept of Purgatory on English vernacular literature on death and the afterlife. Matsuda argues that there are two distinguishable tendencies in such work: one, the didactic or...

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