Minnis, A. J.

Translations of authority in medieval English literature valuing the vernacular / [[Book] :] Alastair Minnis. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 272 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-265) and index.

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.

All age.

9780521515948

2008039996


English literature--Criticism, Textual.--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Transmission of texts--History--England--To 1500.
Authority in literature.
Translating and interpreting--Political aspects--History--England--To 1500.
Latin language--Translations into English--History--To 1500.
Politics and literature--History--England--To 1500.

PR275.T45 / M56 2009

820.9001

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