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

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.