Alastair Minnis

Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature

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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: 19. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780521515948
• ISBN-10: 0521515947
• Artikelnr.: 26056216

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.