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Title: |
Text & Voice |
| Sub-title: |
The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages |
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| Edited by: |
Marianne Børch |
| ISBN10-13: |
8778388023 : 9788778388025 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w illus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Weight: |
.472 Kg. |
| Published: |
Odense University Press (DK) - January 2004 |
| List Price: |
18.75 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Historiography |
| Text in English and French. This book addresses the medieval text as carrier of cu1tural authority. Ideas of textuality are in many ways the key to understanding medieval culture, in which the world was conceptualised as a text, or even a book, a second book to supplement his first, the Bible. The notion influenced views of, as well as the production and organisation of, written texts, and even determined the construction of each aspect of medieval life, as time, space, or the human body were viewed as parts of the overall cultural text. Medieval textuality may thus be investigated from a wide range of approaches, and "Text and Voice" has gathered together contributions on various of this great topic's ramifications from a number of the most outstanding scholars in the field. The book covers both Latin and vernacular texts and, in assessing medieval textuality, or more properly, textualities, it moves from questions of the Production, disposition, and illumination of texts over varying implications of the use of Latin "auctoritas", of generic experiment, and surprising absences to a consideration of various medieval textualities existing alongside one another. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Textual Performance: Chaucerian Prologues and the French Dit; Le prestige du livre à l'époque monastique; The Rhetoric of the Latin Page: Authority, Persuasion and Latinity in Medieval and Renaissance Historiography; Geoffrey Chaucer and the Cosmic Text: Rejecting Analogy; 'Adhering to the footprints of these men as if to books from antiquity ...'; Absent Glosses: A Crisis of Vernacular Hermeneutics in Late-Medieval England; The Art of Rhetoric and the Art of the Page: Figurae in the Illuminations of The Getty Apocalypse; Un texte sans authorité: La Bible; The Cloud of Unknowing: Apophatic Discourse and Vernacular Anxieties; Nature's Light: The World as a Text and its Medieval Reader. |
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