Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England write by Fiona Somerset. This book was released on 2003. Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who were the Lollards? What did Lollards believe? What can the manuscript record of Lollard works teach us about the textual dissemination of Lollard beliefs and the audience for Lollard writings? What did Lollards have in common with other reformist or dissident thinkers in late medieval England, and how were their views distinctive? These questions have been fundamental to the modern study of Lollardy (also known as Wycliffism). The essays in this book reveal their broader implications for the study of English literature and history through a series of closely focused studies that demonstrate the wide-ranging influence of Lollard writings and ideas on later medieval English culture. Introductions to previous scholarship, and an extensive Bibliography of printed resources for the study of Wyclif and Wycliffites, provide an entry to scholarship for those new to the field.Contributors: DAVID AERS, MARGARET ASTON, HELEN BARR, MISHTOONI BOSE, LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER, ANDREW COLE, RALPH HANNA III, MAUREEN JURKOWSKI, ANDREW LARSEN, GEOFFREY H. MARTIN, WENDY SCASE, FIONA SOMERSET, EMILY STEINER. FIONA SOMERSET is at Duke University, Durham NC; JILL C. HAVENS is at Texas Christian University; DERRICK G. PITARD is at Slippery Rock University, PA.
The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature
The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature write by Erin K. Wagner. This book was released on 2024-04-22. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority.
The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England
The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England write by Ian Forrest. This book was released on 2005-10-20. The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heresy was the most feared crime in the medieval moral universe. It was seen as a social disease capable of poisoning the body politic and shattering the unity of the church. The study of heresy in late medieval England has, to date, focused largely on the heretics. In consequence, we know very little about how this crime was defined by the churchmen who passed authoritative judgement on it. By examining the drafting, publicizing, and implementing of new laws against heresy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, using published and unpublished judicial records, this book presents the first general study of inquisition in medieval England. In it Ian Forrest argues that because heresy was a problem simultaneously national and local, detection relied upon collaboration between rulers and the ruled. While involvement in detection brought local society into contact with the apparatus of government, uneducated laymen still had to be kept at arm's length, because judgements about heresy were deemed too subtle and important to be left to them. Detection required bishops and inquisitors to balance reported suspicions against canonical proof, and threats to public safety against the rights of the suspect and the deficiencies of human justice. At present, the character and significance of heresy in late medieval England is the subject of much debate. Ian Forrest believes that this debate has to be informed by a greater awareness of the legal and social contexts within which heresy took on its many real and imagined attributes.
Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Voice in Later Medieval English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voice in Later Medieval English Literature write by David Lawton. This book was released on 2016-12-22. Voice in Later Medieval English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without effacing their history or future. The approach yields important insights into the voice work of late medieval poets, especially Langland and Chaucer, and also their fifteenth-century successors, who treat their work as they have treated their precursors. It also helps illuminate vernacular religious writing and its aspirations, and it addresses literary and cultural change, such as the effect of censorship and increasing political instability in and beyond the fifteenth century. Lawton also proposes his emphasis on voice as a literary tool of broad application, and his book has a bold and comparative sweep that encompasses the Pauline letters, Augustine's Confessions, the classical precedents of Virgil and Ovid, medieval contemporaries like Machaut and Petrarch, extra-literary artists like Monteverdi, later poets such as Wordsworth, Heaney and Paul Valéry, and moderns such as Jarry and Proust. What justifies such parallels, the author claims, is that late medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history of voice that extends to modernity. The book's energy is therefore devoted to the transformative reading of later medieval texts, in order to show their original and ongoing importance as voice work.
Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England
Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England write by Lisa H. Cooper. This book was released on 2011-03-10. Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.
