Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature
Subtitle: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780521022019
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--Hi; English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: As literacy increased among Western Europeans in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, so, Brian Stock argues, did scripturalism, the practice of using the written word to establish norms and values and so to control conduct.