Translations of authority in medieval English literature
Subtitle: valuing the vernacular
By: Alastair Minnis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521515948
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500; Authority in literature; Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500; Latin language -- Translating into English -- History -- To 1500; Politics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Absent glosses: the trouble with middle English hermeneutics; title: Looking for a sign: the quest for nominalism in Ricardian poetry; title: Piers's protean pardon: Langland on the letter and spirit of indulgences; title: Making bodies: confection and conception in Walter Brut's vernacular theology; title: Spiritualizing marriage: Margery Kempe's allegories of female authority; title: Chaucer and the relics of vernacular religion.