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Lies Slander Obscenity Med Eng Lit: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
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Product Description Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the "Patience" poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive--as lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue. Review "...Craun's analysis provides a model of how reinscribing the literary within its appropriate traditions, engaging the rhetorical backgrounds that fourteenth-century poets would have expected their readers to share, helps to bring poetry to life." Kathryn L. Lynch, Speculum--A Journal of Medieval Studies Book Description Drawing on manuscript sources, Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the 'Patience' poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive SH as lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue.
