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.
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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.