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The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature

Erin K. Wagner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

281 Seiten

2024
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-1923-9 (ISBN)

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Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority.

Erin K. Wagner is an associate professor of English and Humanities at SUNY Delhi.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Christianities Before Modernity
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	516 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Häresie • Heresy • Middle English • Mittelenglisch • Orthodoxie • Orthodoxy • Religion • Vernacular • Volkssprache
ISBN-10	1-5015-1923-9 / 1501519239
ISBN-13	978-1-5015-1923-9 / 9781501519239
Zustand	Neuware