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; Margery Kempe's self-promoting biblical exegesis; and Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics. These discussions disclose different aspects of 'vernacularity', enabling a fuller understanding of its complexity and potency.
| ISBN: | 9781107403949 |
| Publication date: | 12th January 2012 |
| Author: | Alastair Yale University, Connecticut Minnis |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 290 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Theology |
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; Margery Kempe's self-promoting biblical exegesis; and Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics. These discussions disclose different aspects of 'vernacularity', enabling a fuller understanding of its complexity and potency.
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature features in the following genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Theology
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature is available in Paperback
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature was written by Alastair Yale University, Connecticut Minnis and published by Cambridge University Press
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature has 290 pages
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