Translations of authority in medieval English literature : valuing the vernacular

Publication Data

• Title Translations of authority in medieval English literature : valuing the vernacular
• Author A. J. Minnis
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• 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 :: Translations into English :: History :: To 1500
• 014782837

Translations of authority in medieval English literature : valuing the vernacular by A. J. Minnis. ISBN 9780521515948. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.