Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages

Name: Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780521453158

ISBN-10: 0521453151

ISBN-13: 9780521453158

Edition: 1996

Authors: Rita Copeland

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What were the boundaries between official and subversive, orthodox and dissenting critical practices in the Middle Ages? Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders. Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and hermeneutics, academic sciences, clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy are all considered. This collection of new essays by major scholars examines…

Book details

List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/6/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 346
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Rita Copeland is Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: dissenting critical practices




Rhetoric, coercion, and the memory of violence




Rape and the pedagogical rhetoric of sexual violence




Heloise and the gendering of the literate subject




The dissenting image: a postcard from




The schools give a license to poets




The science of politics and late medieval academic debate




Desire and the scriptural text: Will as reader in 'Piers Plowman'




'Vae octuplex', Lollard socio-textual ideology, and Ricardian-Lancastrian prose translation




Sacrum Signum: sacramentality and dissent in York's theatre of Corpus




Inquisition, speech, and writing: a case from late medieval



Index