Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
(Book #31 in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series)
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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 destructive--as lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:052149690X
ISBN13:9780521496902
Release Date:June 1997
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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