Middle English Life of Christ
Subtitle: Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9782503547480
Subjects: Jesus christ, biography; Christian literature, history and criticism; Comparative literature, english and latin; Comparative literature, latin and old english; Authority in literature; Latin language; Theology, doctrinal, great britain
Description: This book tells how Middle English lives of Christ translated Latin literary theory and texts, challenging the common modern supposition that vernacular texts and vernacular theology were at odds with Latinate clerical culture.