Text and Voice : The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages

Børch, Marianne ; editor:

ISBN 10: 8778388023 / ISBN 13: 9788778388025

Published by Univ.of Southern Denmark (2004), Odense [Denmark], 2004

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22x14cm, 272 pp. Contains 10 papers. Includes: Textual performances : Chaucerian prologues and the French dit / A.C. Spearing -- Le prestigue du livre à l époque monastique / Birger Munk Olsen -- The rhetoric of the Latin page : authority, persuasion and latinity in medieval and Renaissance historiography / Lars Boje Mortensen -- Geoffrey Chaucer and the cosmic text : rejecting analogy / Marianne Børch -- Adhering to the footprints of these men as if to books from antiquity / Karsten Friis-Jensen -- Absent glosses : a crisis of vernacular hermeneutics in late-medieval England / Alastair Minnis -- The art of rhetoric and the art of the page : figurae in the illuminations of the Getty Apocalypse / Jesse M. Gellrich -- Un texte sans authorité : la Bible / Betty Rojtman -- The cloud of unknowing :apophatic discourse and vernacular anxieties / Charles Lock -- Nature s light : the world as a text and its medieval reader / Aksel Haaning.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Text and Voice : The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages
• Publisher: Univ.of Southern Denmark (2004), Odense [Denmark]
• Publication Date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8778388023
• ISBN 13: 9788778388025
• Binding: orig.wrappers
• Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Literature

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Synopsis

Ideas of textuality are in many ways the key to understanding medieval culture, in which the world was conceptualized as a text, or even as a book, a second book of God to supplement his first, the Bible. The notion influenced views of, as well as the production and organization of, actual texts. The articles of this book scrutinize various means by which writers (both Latin and vernacular), manuscript illuminators, and exegetes (Christian and Jewish) establish texts as authoritative, or, in certain instances, challenge or subvert textual authority. The book may justly claim not only to substantiate, but also to carry further, and occasionally contest, current scholarship within the field; even as it undertakes to grapple with some of that field's unanswered riddles.