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Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Rita Copeland
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:348 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - classical, early and medieval |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521024433
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Classifications | Dewey:820.9001 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
12 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
9 March 2006 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' critical practices in the Middle Ages? Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders. Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and hermeneutics, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy are all considered. This 1996 collection of essays by major scholars examines medieval critical discourse, theories of textuality and interpretation, and representations of learning and knowledge - as contesting and contested institutional practices within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.
Reviews'Copeland is to be congratulated for having gathered an edition that manages to be both intelligent and thought-provoking.' Peritia
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