TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minnis,A.J.
TI  - Translations of authority in medieval English literature: valuing the vernacular 
SN  - 9780511517303
AV  - PR275.T45 M56 2009eb
U1  - 820.9/001 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Authority in literature
KW  - Translating and interpreting
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Translating into English
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Autorité dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Middle English
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-265) and index; 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
N2  - "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."--Jacket
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