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Author Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)

Title Translations of authority in medieval English literature : valuing the vernacular / Alastair Minnis.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-265) and index.
Contents Absent glosses : the trouble with middle English hermeneutics -- Looking for a sign : the quest for Nominalism in Ricardian poetry -- Piers's protean pardon : Langland on the letter and spirit of indulgences -- Making bodies : confection and conception in Walter Brut's vernacular theology -- Spiritualizing marriage : Margery Kempe's allegories of female authority -- Chaucer and the relics of vernacular religion.
Summary "In Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature, leading critic Alastair Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. The concept of the vernacular is seen as possessing a value far beyond the category of language - as encompassing popular beliefs and practices which could either confirm or contest those authorized by church and state institutions. Minnis addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy; the minimal engagement with Nominalism in late fourteenth-century poetry; Langland's views on indulgences; the heretical theology of Walter Brut; Margery Kempe's self-promoting biblical exegesis; and Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics. These discussions disclose different aspects of 'vernacularity', enabling a fuller understanding of its complexity and potency."--Jacket.
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Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Transmission of texts.
England.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Authority in literature.
Authority in literature.
Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects.
Translating and interpreting.
Latin language -- Translating into English -- History -- To 1500.
Latin language -- Translating into English.
Politics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Politics and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Minnis, A.J. (Alastair J.). Translations of authority in medieval English literature. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008039996
ISBN 9780511517303
0511517300
9780521515948 (cloth)
0521515947 (cloth)
9780511515217 (electronic book)
0511515219 (electronic book)
Standard No. 9786612103742