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The Prick of Conscience
A poem based on the end of the world as foretold in the Book of Revelation, the Prick of Conscience became a 14th century bestseller. In the days before the printing press reached England, the process of reproducing a book was laborious, time consuming and made books extremely expensive. The very fact that more than 100 copies survive of the Prick of Conscience suggest that it was widely read, probably even more so than other better known (today that is!) texts such as Piers the Ploughman and The Canterbury Tales.
This title gives the background to the work, the enigma over the identity of the author and illustrates the text with the unusual stained glass images that can be found in a single window, probably put together in the early 15th century, in All Saints, North Street, York. The main body of the work, the fifth book dealing with the Day of Dome (or judgement) is transcribed in full from middle English.
The book is available from Amazon if you follow the link below.
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