This may be a red herring, but you should check out the (many)
anti-clerical sentiments Peire Cardenal expressed in his songs. He
composed throughout most of the 13th c. His were hardly the only examples
of clerical criticism in the vernacular, but he *was* unusually verbose....
Good luck!
"Omittamus studia dulce est desipere et carpamus dulcia iuventutis tenere!"
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Nicole Morgan Schulman
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Research Associate
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