Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature Valuing the Vernacular

Name: Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature Valuing the Vernacular
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ISBN: 9781107403949

ISBN-10: 1107403944

ISBN-13: 9781107403949

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alastair Minnis

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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;…

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List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction



Absent glosses: the trouble with Middle English hermeneutics



Looking for a sign: the quest for Nominalism in Ricardian poetry



Piers' 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