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Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker

Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker

Craun, Edwin David
Minnis, Alastair
Boyde, Patrick

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 31

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521022010
ISBN13: 9780521022019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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