Abstract
The text «The Dyenge Creature», dated 1514, is edited here because it provides a document on a past epoch and a way of looking at life and after-life. Parallels with contemporary Penitential Manuals, edificational treatises, plays and poems help in bringing out this exemplary character. The editor tries to define what the phrases «good life» and «good death» meant for a Christian of the XVth century. He underlines the role of the sacrament of Penance in such a «curriculum vitae», and the overpowering importance of the marian cult in the religion of the years preceding the Reformation. He thinks this text is an example of «popular» literature, although under clerical influence, as it mirrors the feeling of anguish and the tension so widespread in pre-Reformation England. This edition, the first modern one, is accompanied by explanatory notes intended to facilitate the task of the reader.
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