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Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature : Valuing the Vernacular, PDF eBook

Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature : Valuing the Vernacular PDF

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In Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature, leading critic Alastair Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts.

The concept of the vernacular is seen as possessing a value far beyond the category of language - as encompassing popular beliefs and practices which could either confirm or contest those authorized by church and state institutions.

Minnis addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy; the minimal engagement with Nominalism in late fourteenth-century poetry; Langland's views on indulgences; the heretical theology of Walter Brut; Margery Kempe's self-promoting biblical exegesis; and Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics.

These discussions disclose different aspects of 'vernacularity', enabling a fuller understanding of its complexity and potency.

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