Description |
1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual.
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Transmission of texts. |
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England. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Authority in literature.
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Authority in literature. |
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Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects. |
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Translating and interpreting. |
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Latin language -- Translating into English -- History -- To 1500.
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Latin language -- Translating into English. |
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Politics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Politics and literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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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 |
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0511517300 |
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9780521515948 (cloth) |
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0521515947 (cloth) |
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9780511515217 (electronic book) |
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0511515219 (electronic book) |
Standard No. |
9786612103742 |
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