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The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature / Erin K. Wagner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Christianities Before Modernity ; 2Publisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (VII, 274 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501519239
  • 9781501512186
  • 9781501512094
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Jangler -- Chapter 2 Witch -- Chapter 3 <Jew> -- Chapter 4 <Saracen> -- Conclusion. Marvel -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501512094

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Jangler -- Chapter 2 Witch -- Chapter 3 <Jew> -- Chapter 4 <Saracen> -- Conclusion. Marvel -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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