Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the "Patience" poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructiveas lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue.
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Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the "Patience" poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructiveas lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521496902 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 06/16/1997 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature , #31 |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 6.34(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.87(d) |
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