Alastair Minnis

Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature

Valuing the Vernacular

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading critic Alastair Minnis investigates the relationships between authority and the vernacular in the literature of late medieval England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403949
• ISBN-10: 1107403944
• Artikelnr.: 34449430

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Absent glosses: the trouble with Middle English hermeneutics
2. Looking for a sign: the quest for Nominalism in Ricardian poetry
3. Piers' protean pardon: Langland on the letter and spirit of indulgences
4. Making bodies: confection and conception in Walter Brut's vernacular theology
5. Spiritualizing marriage: Margery Kempe's allegories of female authority
6. Chaucer and the relics of vernacular religion.